The Great Depression of the 1930s
Lessons for Today
Edited by Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon
Author Information
Edited by Nicholas Crafts, Professor of Economic History and Director of the ESRC Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy Research Ce, and Peter Fearon, Emeritus Professor of Modern Economic History, University of Leicester
Nicholas Crafts is Professor of Economic History at the University of Warwick and Director of the ESRC Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy Research Centre (CAGE). He has held positions at the London School of Economics, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a consultant to many organizations including HM Treasury, IMF, and the World Bank.
Peter Fearon is Emeritus Professor of Modern Economic History at the University of Leicester. He has published widely on the great depression with a particular emphasis on the US economy and the New Deal. He has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of Kansas, and La Trobe University.
Contributors:
Michael Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER
Charles Calomiris, Columbia University
Forrest Capie, City University
Nicholas Crafts, University of Warwick
Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Fearon, University of Leicester
Alexander J. Field, Santa Clara University
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
Timothy J. Hatton, Australian National University and University of Essex
John Landon-Lane, Rutgers University
Joseph Mason, Louisiana State University
Roger Middleton, University of Bristol
Kris James Mitchener, Warwick University
Albrecht Ritschl, LSE
Peter Temin, MIT
Mark Thomas, University of Virginia
John Wallis, University of Maryland
Nikolaus Wolf, Humboldt University
