ISBN: 9780660198309

The most prestigious and eagerly anticipated nonfiction series of the year teams up with legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood to deliver a surprising look at the topic o… Mehr…

The most prestigious and eagerly anticipated nonfiction series of the year teams up with legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood to deliver a surprising look at the topic of debt - a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of a system of interlocking debts. In her wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative approach to the subject, Atwood proposes that debt is like air - something we take for granted until things go wrong. And then, while gasping for breath, we become very interested in it. Payback is not a series of lectures about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By investigating how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day through the stories we tell each other, through our concepts of balance, revenge, and sin, and in the way we form our social relationships, Atwood shows that the idea of what we owe one another - in other words, debt - is built into the human imagination and is one of its most dynamic metaphors. Margaret Atwood, Books, Business and Finance, Economics, Economic History, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Books>Business and Finance>Economics>Economic History, CBC Audio<

2008, EAN: 0660198304

[SR: 4104025], Audio CD, [EAN: 9780660198309], Audiobook, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), Book, [PU: Canadian Broadcasting Co… Mehr…

[SR: 4104025], Audio CD, [EAN: 9780660198309], Audiobook, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), Book, [PU: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)], 2008-11-01, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 268208, Money Management, 268203, Personal Finance, 68, Business, Finance & Law, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 275068, History & Criticism, 275070, Children's Literature Studies, 275071, Drama & Dramatists, 274863, History of Books, 591858, Key Critics, 275080, Literary Studies, 275096, Literary Theory & Movements, 275105, Novels & Novelists, 275110, Poetry & Poets, 591932, Study Guides, 275389, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 276522, Sociology, 496634, Family & Social Groups, 276303, Law & Disorder, 496644, Methodology & Research, 276447, Population & Demography, 276482, Social Issues, 276530, Sociological Theories, 496640, Sociology of Work, 276411, Social Sciences, 60, Society, Politics & Philosophy, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<

2008, EAN: 0660198304

[SR: 877081], Audio CD, [EAN: 9780660198309], Audiobook, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), Book, [PU: Canadian Broadcasting Cor… Mehr…

[SR: 877081], Audio CD, [EAN: 9780660198309], Audiobook, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), Book, [PU: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)], 2008-11-01, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 268208, Money Management, 268203, Personal Finance, 68, Business, Finance & Law, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 275068, History & Criticism, 275070, Children's Literature Studies, 275071, Drama & Dramatists, 274863, History of Books, 591858, Key Critics, 275080, Literary Studies, 275096, Literary Theory & Movements, 275105, Novels & Novelists, 275110, Poetry & Poets, 591932, Study Guides, 275389, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 276522, Sociology, 496634, Family & Social Groups, 276303, Law & Disorder, 496644, Methodology & Research, 276447, Population & Demography, 276482, Social Issues, 276530, Sociological Theories, 496640, Sociology of Work, 276411, Social Sciences, 60, Society, Politics & Philosophy, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<