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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (CBC Massey Lecture) by Atwood, Margaret is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In this wide-ranging history of debt, Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late.Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn’t talk about high finance or managing money; instead, she goes far deeper to explore debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By looking at how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day, from the stories we tell of revenge and sin to the way we order social relationships, Atwood argues that the idea of what we owe may well be built into the human imagination as one of its most dynamic metaphors. Her final lecture addresses the notion of a debt to nature and the need to find new ways of interacting with the natural world before it is too late.

Who reads Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (CBC Massey Lecture)?

Author

Atwood, Margaret

Publisher

General Publishing / Stoddart Publishing / House of Anansi Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780747598497

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Economics, Science

Rating

3.72 / 5 (1,592 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14