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Margaret Atwood

MARGARET ATWOOD

Preeminent author, Margaret Atwood, delivers the 2008 Massey Lecture, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth". Always surprising and wickedly entertaining, Atwood takes us on a highly imaginative journey, with Scrooge as her central character, to illustrate what she refers to as "the debtor/creditor twinship in the broadest sense." Atwood continues, "What we owe and how we pay is a feature of all human societies and profoundly shapes our shared values and our cultures".

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