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The Profligate Colonial: How the Us Exported Austerity to the Philippines

The Profligate Colonial: How the Us Exported Austerity to the Philippines

Claudio, Lisandro E.

Hardcover

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1501784072
ISBN13: 9781501784071
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Nov 15 2025
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 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 legacy of American rule that cast Filipinos as reckless spenders and imposed monetary discipline as a civilizing force. At the center of this logic is the profligate colonial, a feminized, racialized figure who wastes public funds and so requires the steady hand of imperial governance.

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