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The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy is a book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw first published as The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World in 1998.
Jul 15, 2019 · Episode One, The Battle of Ideas. Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy is a six-hour documentary that originally aired on PBS in 2002. It is based on the best selling book of ...
A six-part documentary series that traces the global struggle between government and market forces from 1914 to the present. Explore the ideas and events that shaped the world's economic order, from Keynes and Hayek to Thatcher and Reagan, from communism to capitalism, from crisis to opportunity.
DANIEL YERGIN, Author, Commanding Heights: This new world economy is being driven by technological change and by political change, but none of it would have happened without a revolution in...
The Commanding Heights is a book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw that explores the balance of power between governments and markets in the world economy. It also covers the PBS television series of the same name that documents the history and challenges of globalization.
With chapters on Europe, the US, Britain, the Third World, the Arab States, Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the former communist countries, Yergin and Stanislaw provide an incisive overview of the state of the economy, and of the battles between governments and markets in each region.
In the 1980's the simultaneous emergence of the conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, who both embraced Hayek's free market ideas, set the stage for a world wide ...
