The Profligate Colonial Pamela S. Beach University of Michigan David Waldstreicher

University of Michigan David Waldstreicher

I’m sad to say

Claire Trevor

is the soul of this utterly unique war story

The Profligate Colonial Pamela S. Beach University of Michigan David WaldstreicherIn The Profligate Colonial, Lisandro E. Claudio reveals how austerity, long before it became a buzzword of modern technocracy, was a tool of US empire. Austerity is often praised as prudence in hard times, a responsible response to crisis. In the Philippines today, it is treated as common sense, an unquestioned commitment to a strong currency, low inflation, and fiscal restraint. Claudio argues that this orthodoxy is in fact a colonial inheritance a