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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9
EAN: 9780684835693
ISBN: 068483569X
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: April 02, 2002
Publisher: Free Press
Sales Rank: 57441
Studio: Free Press
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Product Description:
The Pulitzer Prize-wimming author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets -- and the battle over globalization comes front and center. The Commanding Heights is essential for understanding the struggle over the 'new rules of the game' for the twenty-first century.
Amazon.com Review:
The 'commanding heights,' according to Pulitzer Prize-winnerDaniel Yergin and international business advisor Joseph Stanislaw, arethose dominant enterprises and industries that form the higheconomic ground in nations around the globe. In their analysisof the new world economy, The Commanding Heights: The Battle BetweenGovernment and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World, they examine 'the individuals, theideas, the conflicts, and the turning points' that are responsible. Andby considering events such as the ongoing Asian monetary crisis,they suggest what the ultimate interconnection of financial marketsmight mean in the future.
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Rating: - The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy
A book from Dr. L's class that help to shape my belief in freedom in the marketplace. A very good historical overview of the economics of the middle and late 20th Century. There are wonderful historical explanations of the rise of socialism in the west and communism in the east as well as the two grand economic schools in the west which were the products of Keynes and Hayek.
Rating:  - Landmark Book on Globalization and Economic & Trade Policy
If you want to understand globalization, this book is required reading.This book provides a full overview and history of 20th century globalization.It discusses the economic choices that third-world countries were making in order to become integrated into the first and second-world international trade system. It discusses the international financial institutions, the newly industrializing economies, market economic policies vs. state controlled economies, trade liberalization, trade policy decisions, ... Read More
Rating: - Global Economics
&Both the bookDVD are excellent. It is one thing to have lived through global change, it is another thing to understand the interconnections and long-term effects. The focus in several countries is a centrally planned or market-driven economy. Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, China and the United Kingdom are examined in detail for their success and failure. The Soviet Union - Russia, tried to retain dictatorial control and continues to have problems. The "Chicago School of Economics" celebrates its wisdom, ... Read More
Rating: - Capitalism won.Socialism lost.
That's the central message of this book.But to know why it happened, how it happened, and the geographic extent of this outcome, you need to read this fascinating book.
Now if we can just get our own federal government to realize this . . .
Also read what could be a good companion book: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Rating:  - Not critical enough; offers one perspective and does not back it up
This book was rather fun to read but I am not convinced that the authors have as deep an understanding of the phenomena they are writing about as they would like the readers to believe.The book reads like a narrative, full of assertions that are not backed by rigorous analysis of hard evidence.The authors do not critically explore causal relationships, nor do they talk about research that has done so.They present only one particular perspective on the unfolding of events, and they do not defend this perspective ... Read More
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