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CBC Massey Lectures: Payback : Schulden und die Schattenseite des Wohlstands by Margaret Atwood (2008, Compact Disc)

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This 5-CD collection features the 2008 CBC Massey Lectures by acclaimed author Margaret Atwood. The lectures, titled "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth," cover a wide range of topics related to the concept of debt and its impact on society. Atwood's insightful commentary and thought-provoking ideas are sure to captivate listeners of all backgrounds. Each CD in this collection is in audio format and features the lectures in English. The author, publisher, and topic are clearly identified in the aspects section. This audiobook is perfect for those interested in books and magazines, as well as audiobooks.

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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.