Prof. Mark Copelovitch Authors New Book, “Banks on the Brink: Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises”

Mark Copelovitch, Professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science, has released a new book that studies the relationship between politics and financial crises with David A. Singer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The book, Banks on the Brink: Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises (Cambridge University Press), demonstrates the long-term impacts of political decisions on financial and economic stability through thorough analysis of case studies in Germany and Canada.