Over the years, however, the Bretton Woods system, with its mix of liberal multilateralism and market-oriented economic policies, has come to symbolize the Anglo-American dominance of the global economy that much of the world now criticizes, especially since the global financial crisis. In particular, the Washington Consensus – the set of free-market principles that influences the policies of the IMF, the World Bank, the US, and the UK – has generated considerable resentment, especially after the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s.
但是，随着时间的推移，布雷顿森林体系及其自由多边主义和市场经济政策相结合的特征已成为盎格鲁-美利坚主宰的全球经济的象征，如今受到了世界许多国家的批评，特别是在全球金融危机爆发后。尤其是华盛顿共识——影响IMF、世界银行、美国和英国政策的自由市场原则——制造了大量不满，特别是在20世纪90年代亚洲金融危机后。