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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. In 2002, it was adapted as a documentary of the same title and later released on DVD.
- Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw
- 1998
NARRATOR: One by one the Thatcher government put the commanding heights of the British economy up for sale: electricity, telephones, oil, gas, coal, steel, trains, and planes -- even water.
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
Apr 29, 2002 · 4/29/2002. This site supports a three-part PBS documentary that aired in April and looked at the history of the global economy and evolving economic theories: "The Battle of Ideas," "The Agony of Reform," and "The New Rules of the Game."
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.
Rapidly falling trade barriers and unrestricted capital flows fueled by furious technological innovation and a new global workforce would all combine to transform the world economy.
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Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
