Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of WealthCollects 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. |
Contents
Ancient Balances | 1 |
The Shadow Side | 122 |
Payback | 162 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 215 |
Permissions | 222 |
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