The reviews of Atwood's new "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" at Amazon sound like it'll be an interesting layman's take on the systemic problems that have left us in the current burst bubble. Unfortunately, this brief little piece in the NY Times tells us little of it. The Washington Post review at amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/Payback-Shadow-Wealth-Massey-Lectures/... ) gives a much better feel of how far Atwood is able to take this analysis of social and economic trends that set us up for such debacles.