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  Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Massey Lectures) (Paperback) By (author) Margaret Atwood

  

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  Short Description for PaybackCollected 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 pr
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  • Publisher: House of Anansi Press
  • Published: 07 October 2008
  • Format: Paperback 230 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Studies: General | Sociology | Political Economy
  • ISBN 13: 9780887848001 ISBN 10: 0887848001
  • Sales rank: 180,491

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• Collects the 2008 Massey Lectures as delivered by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale to explore debt as a central historical component of religion, literature, and societal structure, in a volume that also explores the idea of humanity's debt to the natural world. Original.