PBS Commanding Heights - The Battle for the World Economy

Commanding Heights - The Battle for the World Economy (2002)





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Rating...........: 8.0/10 (33 votes)





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The entire film can be viewed/previewed online -> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/hi/story






CHAPTER LIST

EPISODE 1: THE BATTLE OF IDEAS



Chapter 1: Prologue

Chapter 2: The First Era of Globalization, Keynes and Hayek

Chapter 3: Communism on the Heights

Chapter 4: A Capitalist Collapse

Chapter 5: Global Depression

Chapter 6: Worldwide War

Chapter 7: Planning the Peace

Chapter 8: Democracy and Free Markets, enter Milton Friedman

Chapter 9: Germany's Bold Move

Chapter 10: India's Way, The Science of Central Planning

Chapter 11: Chicago Against the Tide

Chapter 12: Stagflation, Richard Nixon, Price Controls

Chapter 13: A Mixed Economy Flounders, Thatcher and Hayek

Chapter 14: Deregulation Takes Off, Airlines and Sandwiches

Chapter 15: Thatcher Takes the Helm

Chapter 16: Reagan Rides In

Chapter 17: War in the South Atlantic

Chapter 18: The Heights Go Up for Sale

Chapter 19: The Battle Decided?





EPSISODE 2: THE AGONY OF REFORM



Chapter 1: Prologue

Chapter 2: The essence of Soviet Power, Socialism?s Influence

Chapter 3: Behind the Iron Façade, no water, no fire, no incentives

Chapter 4: India's Permit Raj, Hindustan vs. Toyota

Chapter 5: Latin American Dependencia

Chapter 6: Counterrevolution in Chile, Salvador Allende Assasinated

Chapter 7: Chicago Boys and Pinochet

Chapter 8: Heresy in the USSR

Chapter 9: Poland's Solidarity

Chapter 10: Bolivia at the Brink

Chapter 11: Shock Therapy Applied

Chapter 12: The Miracle Year in Poland

Chapter 13: Poland in Transition

Chapter 14: Gorbachev Tries China

Chapter 15: Soviet Free Fall

Chapter 16: Reform Goes Awry

Chapter 17: India Escapes Collapse

Chapter 18: Russia Tries to Privatize

Chapter 19: Loans For Shares

Chapter 20: Closing the Deal

Chapter 21: A Decade of Radical Change





EPISODE 3: THE NEW RULES OF THE GAME



Chapter 1: Prologue

Chapter 2: The Global Idea

Chapter 3: NAFTA: The First Test

Chapter 4: Crossing Borders, Mexico

Chapter 5: The Global Market

Chapter 6: Emerging Market Hunters

Chapter 7: Averting a Meltdown: 1994

Chapter 8: The Global Village

Chapter 9: China and the Tigers

Chapter 10: The Japanese Paradox

Chapter 11: Global Contagion Begins

Chapter 12: Contagion Engulfs Asia, Indonesia Implodes

Chapter 13: Russia Defaults

Chapter 14: The Crisis Reaches America, LTCM

Chapter 15: Anti-Globalization Movement

Chapter 16: The Streets of Seattle, Free-trade Double Standard

Chapter 17: Failure at the Summit, The World Bank Under Attack

Chapter 18: The Global Divide, Poverty

Chapter 19: Capitalism Redefined

Chapter 20: The Bottom End of Globalism

Chapter 21: Changing of the Guard

Chapter 22: The Battle Resumed, Quebec City 2001, Protests

Chapter 23: After 9/11





CAST



BILL CLINTON .... President of the United States of America, 1993-2001

VICENTE FOX .... President of Mexico

RICHARD CHENEY .... Vice President of the United States of America

JEFFREY SACHS .... Director, Columbia University Earth Institute

MILTON FRIEDMAN .... Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago

GEORGE SHULTZ .... U.S. Secretary of State, 1982-1989

LARRY LINDSEY .... Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy, 2001-2002

LAWRENCE SUMMERS .... President of Harvard University; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1999-2001

ROBERT RUBIN .... U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1995-1999

PAUL VOLCKER .... Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, 1979-1987

HERNANDO DE SOTO .... Economist; Founder and Director, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru

RICHARD GEPHARDT .... Democratic Leader, U.S. House of Representatives, 1989-2002

NEWT GINGRICH .... Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1995-1999

MARK MOBIUS .... President, Templeton Emerging Markets

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV .... General Secretary, Communist Party, USSR, 1985-1991

ANATOLY CHUBAIS .... First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, 1994-1996

VLADIMIR POTANIN .... President, Interros Holding Company

GRIGORY YAVLINSKY .... Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, 1990

YEGOR GAIDAR .... Acting Prime Minister of Russia, 1992

LEE KUAN YEW .... Senior Minister of Singapore

DR. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD .... Prime Minister of Malaysia

GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA .... President of Bolivia, 1993-1997, 2002-2003

MANMOHAN SINGH .... Finance Minister of India, 1991-1996

THEA LEE .... Assistant Director for International Economics, AFL-CIO

LORD KENNETH BAKER .... Conservative Party Minister of British Parliament, 1981-1992

LESZEK BALCEROWICZ .... Deputy Prime Minister of Finance of Poland, 1989-1991

TONY BENN .... Labor Party Minister of British Parliament, 1950-2001

GORDON BROWN .... Labor Party Finance Minister (Chancellor of the Exchequer)

KEN CAPSTICK .... Former Chairman, Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers

JORGE CASTANEDA .... Foreign Minister of Mexico, 2001-2003

JON CORZINE .... First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, 1994-2001

ALEJANDRO FOXLEY .... Finance Minister of Chile, 1990-1994

JOSEPH STIGLITZ .... Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank,1997-2000

LECH WALESA .... President of Poland, 1990-1995

et al.





The history and impact of the new global economy are made clear--and compelling--in Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. This three-part, six-hour documentary does an astonishingly thorough job of dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political and social importance without ever causing a loss of consciousness for the viewer.



Part 1, The Battle of Ideas, chronicles the history of economic thought from the start of the 20th century and its socialist reforms right through the deregulation of the 1980s.



Part 2, The Agony of Reform, explores the upheavals that such deregulation caused, focusing primarily on economic growth and gains and touching briefly on the wrenching consequences for the poor.



Part 3, The New Rules of the Game, explores the consequences of globalization, including terrorism and the contagion of market collapse.



The series makes good use of both large-and small-scale examples, and features interviews with several major world leaders. Big ideas are made extremely accessible to the average viewer (without condescension). Well worth watching.