I’ve been skimming Yanis Varoufakis book “talking to my daughter about the economy.”
In the intro:
“…besides the poems and literature mentioned in the text as well as the science fiction movies, without which I find it hard to understand the present, I shall mention four books……and novelist Margaret Atwood’s Payback which i recommend unreservedly as perhaps the best and most entertaining book ever written on debt.
Finally it would be remiss not to mention the spectre of Karl Marx…”