Book description
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Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to
reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late.
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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?
< 'A fascinating, freewheeling examination of ideas of debt,
balance and revenge in history, society and literature - Atwood has
again struck upon our most current anxieties' The Times 'A stimulating,
learned, and stylish read from an eminent author writing from a
heartfelt perspective ... very provocative' Conrad Black 'Could hardly
be more timely ... as clear a summary of the situation as I have read'
Financial Times 'Lively and exceedingly timely ... At a time when so
many of us are mired in debts of the financial variety it is worth
remembering that it is the other, non-financial debts that we owe - to
the planet, and to each other - that may prove most important' Observer
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Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to
reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late.
P>
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?
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