Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (24 page)

Deuteronomy, Book of,
48
,
51
,
66

Devil,
55
,
59–60

and Faust story,
74
,
82
,
88–95

pacts with,
71–74
,
82
,
87–93
,
113–14
,
163–64

as pawnbroker,
63
,
67–68

as prototype of tax collector/moneylender,
78–79

as recorder of debts,
71–72
,
74
,
78

signed contracts with,
72
,
74
,
78
,
88
,
113
,
115
,
118
,
163–64

“The Devil and Tom Walker” (Irving),
91–94
,
97

Dickens, Charles,
3
,
90
,
91
,
97
,
105
,
120
,
129–30
.
See also
Scrooge, Ebenezer

Doasyouwouldbedoneby, Mrs.,
22–23
,
39

Dombey and Son
(Dickens),
105

Ecclesiastes, Book of,
103

Egyptian mythology of justice/ afterlife,
25–27
,
28–30
,
31
,
32
,
34
,
39–40
,
152
,
163

environment, mankind’s payment of debt to: by economic relief,
181–83

by famine/food shortages,
188
,
194–95

by human sacrifice,
179–81

by pandemics/ plagues,
183–87

as possible future,
198–99

environment, threats to: biofuel production,
191–92

deforestation,
192

drift netting/overfishing,
177
,
190–91
,
192

economic disparity,
181–83
,
188–89

global warming,
192

industrialization,
188–89

overhunting,
187–88

Third World debt,
193–94

unchecked growth,
196
,
201–202

The Eumenides
(Aeschylus),
36–39

Everquest
(video game),
11–12

“eye for an eye” law,
14
,
20–21

fairness,
12–20
,
28
,
51
,
118
,
148
,
152
,
162–63

Fantasia
(film),
109

Faust story,
163–64

in Goethe,
90–91

in Irving,
91–94

in Marlowe,
74
,
82
,
88–90
,
94–95
,
164
,
168–69

and Scrooge,
88–90

as story of mankind,
201–202

“Forfeits” (parlour game),
120–21

forgiveness,
13
,
44–49
,
75
,
118
,
159–61

French Revolution,
140
,
142–43
,
149

Freud, Sigmund,
100
Furies,
37–39
,
149

Gabriel (archangel),
33
,
78

Games People Play
(Berne).
See
“Debtor” (life game)

Genghis Khan,
18
,
21
,
77

Germinal
(Zola),
57
,
73

Geshtinanna,
64
,
68

Get Shorty
(Leonard),
133–34

gifts,
50
,
52

“The Girl Without Hands” (Grimm),
113–14

The Godfather
(film),
19

golden rule,
21
,
22

Grameen Bank,
199

Hamlet
(Shakespeare),
61
,
79
,
125
,
151
,
152

Hammurabi, Code of,
14
,
56
,
58
,
128

Hell,
68
,
75
,
82
,
95
,
103
,
168

Henry
III
,
146–47

Henry
VIII
,
95
,
96

Hermes,
109
,
119

The House of Mirth
(Wharton),
106

Hundred Years’ War,
140

hunting,
17–18
,
28
,
187–88

Ibsen, Henrik,
100

interest (bank account),
5–6

International Monetary Fund,
193

Irish potato famine,
188

Irving, Washington.
See
“The Devil and Tom Walker”

Iustitia (Justice),
31–32
,
34
,
39
,
149
,
152

Jews, as moneylenders,
145–47
,
152–58

Johnson, Samuel,
127–28

Jung, Carl Gustav,
100–101
,
150–51

justice: as female figure,
34–35
,
39
,
149

goddesses of,
23–33
,
34–35
,
39

and mercy,
13
,
22–23
,
153–54
,
157–58
,
159

scales of,
23–27
,
30–31
,
32
,
33–34
,
39–40
,
152

and trial by jury,
37–39

justice, mythologies of,
23–40

and afterlife,
25–27
,
32–34

Christian,
32–34
,
40

Egyptian,
25–27
,
28–30
,
31
,
32
,
34
,
39–40
,
152
,
163

and goddesses,
23–33
,
34–35

Greek,
24
,
29–30
,
32

Islamic,
34

and protection of animals,
28–29

Roman,
31–32
,
34

Knights Templar,
144–45
,
146

lawyers: and contracts, as means of oppression,
115
,
117–19

and debtor/creditor issues,
153–54
,
156–58
,
159

lending and borrowing,
50–51
,
79–80