The Bretton Woods Institutions: (neoliberal) Sustainable Development

Abstract

This article discusses how the Bretton Woods institutions interact with issues of considerable importance that have directly affected the way the world is perceived since it is being developed in the so-called democracies, those questions are: ideology , neoliberalism and sustainable development. Through analyses of these concepts this article seeks to clearly expose the process through which the Bretton Woods institutions took the control of the global economy and how the term sustainable development has been used as the ideal tool for the expansion of the neoliberal project. After analyzing the aforementioned issues, the article concludes that behind the discourse of growth, progress and sustainability which is delivered by the Institutions created at Bretton Woods, operates a neoliberal ideology, which is in charge of smoothing the domination by the diffusion of legitimating ideas, ensuring this way concessions to the subordinate forces, which implies values that transcend the possible manipulation of the world as an object.