Ms. Merkel on Wednesday had used an interview — notably on American television, not at home — to voice her awareness of Greeks' deep troubles by indicating that a way might still be found for Greece to be allowed to focus on economic growth, even within the parameters of its debt-payback obligations.
Margaret Atwood, in her book of essays, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth", notes that the Aramaic words for debt and sin are the same.
Margaret Atwood, in her recent book "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth," notes that in Aramaic the words for "debt" and "sin" are the same.
Her latest book, an extended essay called "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth," is now being made into a documentary film.
The Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood defines the subject of her book "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" — which originated as the 2008 Massey Lectures in Toronto — as "one of the most worrisome and puzzling things I know: that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force".
Adapted from her book "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth," due out in November, Atwood's essay addresses the psychological payoffs of perpetual debt (it keeps things interesting), and uses two examples from literature — Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and Dickens's Scrooge — to probe our culture's addiction to spending.
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is a non-fiction book written by Margaret Atwood, about the nature of debt, for the 2008 Massey Lectures.
It is feared that next year students from less affluent backgrounds will be put off by potentially huge debts, despite the generous payback scheme for student loans.
Among the more famous of these heads are the primatologist Jane Goodall, the physicist Stephen Hawking and the writer Margaret Atwood, who's the subject of another new documentary, "Payback," about debts and their fallout.
