The SQUEEZE: Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty is the author’s autobiography. Yunus received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for developing the idea of micro-credit for the purpose of helping the poor break the cycl...

The SQUEEZE: Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco is a non-fictional work about the bidding war that ensued between competitors. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar begin the narrative with F. Ross Johnson, the current CEO of the company. Jo...

The SQUEEZE: Jeremy Scahill’s book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Army, is the unauthorized story of the rise of a secret revolutionary force. Supported by the Bush administration, Blackwater is a private military contractor fi...

The SQUEEZE: Bush at War recounts George W. Bush’s response to the September 11 attacks. Bob Woodward’s book also charts the activities that lead up to the subsequent war in Afghanistan. In Bush at War, Woodward particularly centers his discussion...

The SQUEEZE: Neoliberal economists have offered undoubtedly a plethora of dogmas and assumptions since the age of Reagan. Their free market ideologues regarding economic thought have contributed much, in Ha-Joon Chang’s belief, to recent financial...

The SQUEEZE: Kevin Phillips, a harsh critic of the Republican Party, suggests in American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century the importance of becoming familiar with ideological extre...

The SQUEEZE: The global financial crisis has had a great impact upon business, personal wealth, and everyday living. In analyzing the situation, economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that caused a modern financ...

The SQUEEZE: Peter L. Bernstein traces the evolution of risk in Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. In the book, Bernstein begins the narrative exploring ancient thinking regarding risk, tracing the history of the concept of numbers an...

The SQUEEZE: The American economy foundered in 2008. Financial historians, scholars, and critics believe that Wall Street bankers hold the most culpability. However, Robert B. Reich argues against this notion. In Aftershock: The Next Economy and A...

The SQUEEZE: The study and practice of neoliberalism has become an important topic since the early 1970s. David Harvey examines the term within the context of understanding the relationship between free markets, free trade, and the free flow of ca...