The Great Depression of the 1930s

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.

1: Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon: Depression and Recovery in the 1930s: An Overview
2: Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon: The 1930s: Understanding the Lessons
3: Nikolaus Wolf: Europe's Great Depression: coordination failure after the First World War
4: Albrecht Ritschl: Reparations, Deficits, and Debt Default: The Great Depression in Germany
5: Forrest Capie: Disintegration of the International Economy between the Wars
6: Charles Calomiris: The Political Lessons of Depression-era Banking Reform
7: Michael Bordo and John Landon-Lane: The Banking Panics in the United States in the 1930s: Some Lessons for Today
8: Roger Middleton: Can Contractionary Fiscal Policy be Expansionary? Consolidation, Sustainability, and Fiscal Policy Impact in Britain in the 1930s
9: Price Fishback: US Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the 1930s
10: Price Fishback and John Wallis: What was New about the New Deal?
11: Timothy J. Hatton and Mark Thomas: Labour Markets in the Interwar Period and Economic Recovery in the UK and the USA
12: Alexander J. Field: Economic Growth and Recovery in the United States: 1919-1941
13: Kris James Mitchener and Joseph Mason: Blood and Treasure: Exiting the Great Depression and Lessons for Today
14: Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin: Fetters of Gold and Paper