ABSTRACT

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. This book is published in September 1994 to coincide with the World Bank's 50th annive

chapter |20 pages

Introduction and Basics

chapter Chapter I|16 pages

In the Beginning

chapter Chapter II|21 pages

The Other Ancestor

chapter Chapter III|21 pages

Structural Salvation

chapter |6 pages

Interlude

The Savage Mind

chapter Chapter IV|17 pages

False Prophecies

chapter Chapter V|16 pages

The Fundamentalist Freedom Fighter

chapter Chapter VI|30 pages

L’Esprit de Corps

chapter |7 pages

Interlude

The Namland Coup

chapter Chapter VII|20 pages

Governance: The Last Refuge?

chapter Chapter VIII|28 pages

The Environmental Battlefield

chapter |6 pages

Interlude

The Clans

chapter Chapter IX|17 pages

Intellectual Leadership and the H Street Heretics

chapter Chapter X|16 pages

Ruling the Realm

chapter Chapter XI|24 pages

The Bank Perceived: Images and Self-Images

chapter |3 pages

Interlude

Dr Gott’s Formula

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion

‘The Thing’