This book, in the Routledge International Handbooks series, examines the issue of governance of the global economic and financial system and prospects for its reform. Specifically, the book will address the following three main themes: Governance; Functions of governance; and Problems and prospects of governance. The handbook will provide a thorough analysis of the issues at stake in designing international rules and institutions able to govern the global economy; illustrate and analyse virtually all the main institutions, rules and arrangements that make up global economic governance, inscribing them within the function these institutions, rules and arrangements are meant to perform; discuss the problems that affect today's global economic governance and assess alternative proposals to reform the international financial architecture.