Despite the global financial crisis and the prospect of severe economic recession, debates on future financial regulation take little if any notice of reasons why the previous regime of financial regulation failed so spectacularly. The paper identifies the key presumptions underlying efforts to...

This article argues that the current G20 is unsustainable and should be replaced by a new body on a firmer constitutional foundation. It presents two designs, one of them a reformed version of the G20, the other a reformed version of the Bretton Woods (World Bank and IMF) governance arrangement....