Payback

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.