Even The Economist, that bastion of neoliberal orthodoxy, was running cover headlines like “Capitalism: Was It A Good Idea?” (my italics)ĭebt is a “big book,” in other words, because he wants to re-open a set of questions that had come to seem closed “for a very long time,” the questions of “what human beings and human society are or could be like-what we actually do owe each other, what it even means to ask that question.” In the wake of the disaster, it was as if suddenly, everyone wanted to start asking big questions again. The aim of the book was to write the sort of book people don’t write any more: a big book, asking big questions, meant to be read widely and spark public debate…he credit crisis -and near collapse of the global economy in 2008-afforded the perfect opportunity. In the final lines of his introduction to Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber writes that “or a very long time, the intellectual consensus has been that we can no longer ask Great Questions.” And as he put it in a guest post over at Savage Minds:
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