Peter Fearon
University of Leicester
Peter Fearon is Professor Emeritus of Modern Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester. His main fields of interest are US and UK economic and social policy during the 1920s and 1930s. He has published extensively on the Great Depression, with a particular emphasis on the US, and also on the New Deal period. He has had visiting appointments at the universities of Cambridge, Kansas and La Trobe.
Articles by Peter Fearon:
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A recession to remember: Lessons from the US, 1937–1938
23 November 2010, 9329 reads
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