David Graeber the anarchist anthropologist probably doesn't share much with American neo-liberal deficit hawks. But perhaps he shares this one thing: a desire to engage in a discourse about debt with virtually no mention of the estimated value to society or individuals of the act of borrowing. For the US deficit hawks - especially these days - it doesn't seem to matter that government debt buys you a lot of public goods. Those goods are not often discussed in any meaningful way. Instead, the emphasis is on the danger and downside of governments holding these debts.
