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- 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 20th century -- a battle between the powers of government and the forces of the marketplace over who would control the economies of the world's great nations.
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The Commanding Heights attempts to trace the rise of free markets during the last century as well as the process of globalization. Yergin attributes the origin of the phrase commanding heights to a speech by Vladimir Lenin referring to the control of perceived key segments of a national economy.
- Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw
- 1998
NARRATOR: As the 20th century drew to its close, and our new century began, the battle over the world economy intensified. Some people feared globalization and questioned the benefits.
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