A wonderful book. Posner provides a pathbreaking account of the astounding transformation that is occurring in the realm of private finance in the European Union.
   --Kathleen R. McNamara, author of The Currency of Ideas: Monetary Politics in the European Union

An excellent book about the evolution of equity markets in Europe and a remarkable wave of institutional innovation during the late 1990s and early years of the new century.
   --Rawi Abdelal, author of Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance

Elliot Posner is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University.