Full name: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Author: Margaret Atwood Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Economics, History, Essays, Philosophy, Business, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780887848001 0887848001

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. Similar books: In CHEAP We Trust by Lauren Weber Bad Paper by Jake Halpern Maxed Out by James D. Scurlock Congratulations, by the way by George Saunders Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed by Meghan Daum Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell Democracy Incorporated by Sheldon S. Wolin Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin Postcapitalism by Paul Mason The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek The Great Degeneration by Niall Ferguson The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros Curious Pursuits by Margaret Atwood Strange Things by Margaret Atwood Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand Dark Money by Jane Mayer On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder