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.
| ISBN: | 9780747598718 |
| Publication date: | 4th May 2009 |
| Author: | Margaret Atwood |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 230 pages |
| Genres: |
Society and culture: general |
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.
Payback features in the following genres: Society and culture: general
Payback is available in Ebook, Paperback
Payback was written by Margaret Atwood and published by Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
Payback has 230 pages
£9.89