The authors compare the ideologies of the free-market with religious faith, giving the World Bank the role of a secular church setting out to convert the world's underdeveloped economies to the consumer capitalist way, and so to create an enormous secular empire.

Introduction and Basics -- In the Beginning -- The Other Ancestor -- Structural Salvation -- Interlude -- False Prophecies -- The Fundamentalist Freedom Fighter -- L'Esprit de Corps -- Interlude -- Governance: The Last Refuge? -- The Environmental Battlefield -- Interlude -- Intellectual Leadership and the H Street Heretics -- Ruling the Realm -- The Bank Perceived: Images and Self-Images -- Interlude -- Conclusion