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Commanding heights : the battle for the world economy / Daniel Yergin, William Cran. Videorecording.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Boston Video, 2003.Description: 3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1578079373
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD87
Contents:
disc 1: The battle of ideas / produced and directed by William Cran ; written by William Cran, Daniel Yergin -- disc 2: The agony of reform / produced and directed by William Cran ; written by William Cran, Daniel Yergin -- disc 3: The new rules of the game / directed, written, and produced by Greg Barker.
Production credits:
  • Editor, Chris Lysaght [and 3 others] ; principal photography, Jeff Baynes [and 6 others] ; music, Paul Foss.
 Narrator: David Ogden Stiers ; interviewees: Jim Adams, Anand Panyarachun, Lord Kenneth Baker, Leszek Balcerowicz, Tony Benn, Gordon Brown, Ken Capstick, Jorge Castaneda, Barbara Castle, Domingo Cavallo, Richard Cheney, P. Chidambaram, Anatoly Chubais, Bill Clinton, Jon Corzine, Clive Crook, Lord Meghnad Desai, Hernando De Soto, Stanley Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Yegor Gaidar, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Gephardt, Newt Gingrich, Mikhail Gorbachev, Arnold "Al" Harberger, Lord Ralph Harris, Boris Jordan, Naomi Klein, Ricardo Lagos, David Lee, Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Kuan Yew, Thea Lee, Larry Lindsey, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, William Mcdonough, Benjamin Mkapa, Mark Mobius, Narayana Murthy, Moises Naim, Lord Cecil Parkinson, Vladimir Potanin, Jairam Ramesh, Robert Rubin, Jeffrey Sachs, Eisuke Sakakibara, Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez De Lozada, Nemat Shafik, Lilia Shevtsova, George Shultz, Manmohan Singh, Sirivat Voravetvuthikun, Lord Robert Skidelsky, Joseph Stanislaw, Joseph Stiglitz, Lawrence Summers, Osvaldo Sunkel, Laura Tyson, Paul Volcker, Lori Wallach, Lech Walesa, James Wolfensohn, Grigory Yavlinsky, Daniel Yergen.Summary: A six-hour three-part PBS documentary series based on the book by Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin, Commanding Heights takes an in-depth look at the debate over the impact of globalization, the ongoing battle of government vs. market, and the varied forces shaping our economy and future, dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political and social importance.
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Based on the book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw.
Originally broadcast as a three-part television mini-series on PBS in 2002.
Special features: Commanding Heights Web Site; The Commanding Heights Book Excerpt; "The Little Screen": An Article by Daniel Yergin; Q&A with Daniel Yergin and William Cran; Q&A with Daniel Yergin and Greg Barker; "PBS's 'Heights': Economic History as Riveting TV": An Article by Ken Ringle; Interviews in This Program; Biographies.

disc 1: The battle of ideas / produced and directed by William Cran ; written by William Cran, Daniel Yergin --
disc 2: The agony of reform / produced and directed by William Cran ; written by William Cran, Daniel Yergin --
disc 3: The new rules of the game / directed, written, and produced by Greg Barker.

Editor, Chris Lysaght [and 3 others] ; principal photography, Jeff Baynes [and 6 others] ; music, Paul Foss.

Narrator: David Ogden Stiers ; interviewees: Jim Adams, Anand Panyarachun, Lord Kenneth Baker, Leszek Balcerowicz, Tony Benn, Gordon Brown, Ken Capstick, Jorge Castaneda, Barbara Castle, Domingo Cavallo, Richard Cheney, P. Chidambaram, Anatoly Chubais, Bill Clinton, Jon Corzine, Clive Crook, Lord Meghnad Desai, Hernando De Soto, Stanley Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Yegor Gaidar, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Gephardt, Newt Gingrich, Mikhail Gorbachev, Arnold "Al" Harberger, Lord Ralph Harris, Boris Jordan, Naomi Klein, Ricardo Lagos, David Lee, Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Kuan Yew, Thea Lee, Larry Lindsey, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, William Mcdonough, Benjamin Mkapa, Mark Mobius, Narayana Murthy, Moises Naim, Lord Cecil Parkinson, Vladimir Potanin, Jairam Ramesh, Robert Rubin, Jeffrey Sachs, Eisuke Sakakibara, Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez De Lozada, Nemat Shafik, Lilia Shevtsova, George Shultz, Manmohan Singh, Sirivat Voravetvuthikun, Lord Robert Skidelsky, Joseph Stanislaw, Joseph Stiglitz, Lawrence Summers, Osvaldo Sunkel, Laura Tyson, Paul Volcker, Lori Wallach, Lech Walesa, James Wolfensohn, Grigory Yavlinsky, Daniel Yergen.


A six-hour three-part PBS documentary series based on the book by Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin, Commanding Heights takes an in-depth look at the debate over the impact of globalization, the ongoing battle of government vs. market, and the varied forces shaping our economy and future, dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political and social importance.