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The Battle of Ideas
- "The Battle of Ideas" tells the story of how, for half a century, the world moved toward more government control ---from the centrally planned economies of the communist world, to the "mixed economies" of Europe and the developing world, to the United States' regulated capitalism -- and then began to move away.
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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.
- Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw
- 1998
NARRATOR: This is the story of how the new global economy was born, a century-long battle as to which would control the commanding heights of the world's economies -- governments or...
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: With David Ogden Stiers, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Gordon Brown. The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.
- (550)
- 2002
- Documentary, History
- 360
When a British grocer's daughter and a former Hollywood actor become heads of state, they join forces around the ideas of Hayek, and new political and economic policies begin to transform the...
The social and economic catastrophe left in the ashes of World War I ignited an intellectual and political struggle that would last most of the twentieth century - a battle between the powers of...
Jan 14, 2009 · The title comes from a speech by Vladimir Lenin, who used the phrase "commanding heights" to refer to the segments of the economy that largely control or support the others, such as oil,...
The Commanding Heights Daniel Yergin, with co-author Joseph Stanislaw, presents an incisive narrative of risks and opportunities that emerge as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets—and the battle over globalization comes front and center.
