This book opens with an account the fundamental ideas of this economic ideology of neoliberalism. The book shows how this agenda captured the world’s leading financial institutions, particularly from the 1980s. It includes concise descriptions of each part of the ‘unholy trinity’: the International Monetary Fund; World Bank; and World Trade Organization, in relation to their global, financial, development and trade management roles. The story of the mounting opposition to these ‘Bretton Woods’ institutions is told, and the book concludes with a severe review of the various ideas now being canvassed not simply for their radical reform, but also alternative principles that might guide a very different form of globalization.