Mark Copelovitch, Professor in the UW-Madison Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and 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.