Commanding Heights - The Battle for the World Economy

Commanding Heights - The Battle for the World Economy


Starring:David Ogden Stiers, Newt Gingrich, Stephen G. Breyer, Barbara Castle, Jeffrey Sachs, Ben Stein, Milton Friedman, Daniel Yergin, Tony Benn, Paul Volcker, Joe Stanislaw, Cecil Parkinson, Marc Merlin
Director: William Cran, Greg Barker
Studio: Wgbh Boston
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
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. There is a slight teenybopper feel to The Battle for the World's Economy's admiration for today's celebrity economists, but the contagious enthusiasm is part of what makes the series so interesting. Big ideas are made extremely accessible to the average viewer (without condescension). Well worth watching. --Ali Davis
Description
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy confronts head-on Americans' critical concerns about the new interconnected world. Based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, this groundbreaking series explores our changing world—the great debate over globalization and the future of our society.

Commanding Heights reunites the team that created The Prize— award-winning producer William Cran (From Jesus to Christ) and Daniel Yergin—and is the first in-depth documentary to tell the inside story of our new global economy and what it means for individuals around the world. Filmed on five continents, the powerful narrative combines stunning film footage with dramatic stories and extraordinary interviews with world leaders and thinkers from twenty different countries, including: Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and President George W. Bush's Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsey.

Commanding Heights dramatically captures the issues that have defined the wealth and fate of nations and shows how the battle over the world economy will shape our lives in the twenty-first century.

Special DVD Features Include: ? Access to the Commanding Heights Web site, including: ? An exclusive time map, which provides an interactive atlas of economic history ? Comprehensive transcripts from on-camera interviews, and biographies of the people who played significant roles in the development of the modern global market ? An online teacher's guide that provides suggestions for applications of the Web site in classroom instruction ? An excerpt from the companion book to the series ? A complete list of interview subjects included in the series ? Chapter breaks ? English audiotrack and subtitles ? On three DVD5 discs.
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A only so/so documentary about Globalization
  • Commanding Heights
  • Excellent
  • Well Done
  • Important to know who author is affiliated with!
 Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Starring: David Ogden Stiers , Joe Stanislaw , Newt Gingrich , Tony Benn , and Paul Volcker
Director: Greg Barker , and William Cran
Manufacturer: WGBH Boston
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ASIN: B00006HAZF
Release Date: 2002-07-30

Amazon.com

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. There is a slight teenybopper feel to The Battle for the World's Economy's admiration for today's celebrity economists, but the contagious enthusiasm is part of what makes the series so interesting. Big ideas are made extremely accessible to the average viewer (without condescension). Well worth watching. --Ali Davis

Description

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy confronts head-on Americans' critical concerns about the new interconnected world. Based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, this groundbreaking series explores our changing world—the great debate over globalization and the future of our society.

Commanding Heights reunites the team that created The Prize— award-winning producer William Cran (From Jesus to Christ) and Daniel Yergin—and is the first in-depth documentary to tell the inside story of our new global economy and what it means for individuals around the world. Filmed on five continents, the powerful narrative combines stunning film footage with dramatic stories and extraordinary interviews with world leaders and thinkers from twenty different countries, including: Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and President George W. Bush's Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsey.

Commanding Heights dramatically captures the issues that have defined the wealth and fate of nations and shows how the battle over the world economy will shape our lives in the twenty-first century.

Special DVD Features Include: ? Access to the Commanding Heights Web site, including: ? An exclusive time map, which provides an interactive atlas of economic history ? Comprehensive transcripts from on-camera interviews, and biographies of the people who played significant roles in the development of the modern global market ? An online teacher's guide that provides suggestions for applications of the Web site in classroom instruction ? An excerpt from the companion book to the series ? A complete list of interview subjects included in the series ? Chapter breaks ? English audiotrack and subtitles ? On three DVD5 discs.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars A only so/so documentary about Globalization.......2007-06-16

The series is based around the contrasting economic views of John Maynard kenyes and Freidrich Von Hayek whose competing ideas have polarized the debate over how much we should regulate our economies. The current belief, held by the majority of economists and popularized by the Chicago school, supports Hayek's view that less control is better. However what gets excluded from the frame this documentary draws around the debate is the fact that, today, when we talk about "free economies" we are still talking about economies that are run by centralized banks. So what we are really talking about-- and this might be confusing because the language used by Hayek supporting economists suggests total and absolute freedom-- is only a relative notion of freedom within what still remains a heavily planned economy. In other words we have centralized banks here in the west that serve the exact same function that centralized banks do in communist, state controlled, economies. The single difference is our centralized banks are privately owned. So the question which this series never asks is who owns these banks?


If you buy this DVD series, which you should if you are interested in understanding more about the economy and the issue of economic globalization, be very critical of the bankers in it who profess to believe in a free market economy-- or more to the point suggest that we are actually living in one. Of course we don't because our economy is run behind closed doors by the privately owned Federal Reserve banking system who prints our fiat currency. Which pretty much tells us, right there, to what extent our economy is managed, because a fiat currency, by definition, requires heavy centralized regulation.

As Thomas Jefferson warned at the founding of our country, if you give the banks the authority to print and regulate money they will end up stealing all of the country's wealth. While this DVD series is informative it also frames the debate in such a way that excludes one from asking themselves questions about the increasing inequality of wealth and its relationship to the increasing control central banks are exhibiting on the world's currencies, while simultaneously erroneously suggesting that we are actually moving, through globalization, to a more free and open economy.

In short what this documentary will not inform you about is that everyday more and more of the world's debt is owned by fewer and fewer people, and that means that wealth is being consolidated through centralized banks into fewer and fewer hands. Consequently, I feel, that the real issues concerning globalization are actually different than these authors purport them to be.

5 out of 5 stars Commanding Heights.......2007-05-07

Excellent and informative. If you wish an understanding of where we are in the world economically, how we got there, and where we are headed this is a great view.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2007-03-01

Anyone interested in the various schools of thought from Friedman and the Chicago monetarist to the Austrians and the pure free markets to the Keynesians of Cambridge and Boston should see this set. It gives you the evils of government intervention and socialism in the market place up close. Argue as much as you want put every thought under the microscope of academic scrutiny and eventually you realize most economic books, works and college classes are taught by someone on the dole getting paid to keep the bureaucracy in business. Less government to the point of no government is the remedy. Maybe the state pays your bills unless you're at Hillsdale or Grove City but truth can not be argued with. This is a must see set for first or second year college econ students.

5 out of 5 stars Well Done.......2007-01-10

A professional presentation of 20th century macroeconomics that is historically accurate, unbiased, educational and easy to follow.

5 out of 5 stars Important to know who author is affiliated with!.......2007-01-02

Just to let everyone know - Yergin is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The New Rules of the Game
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The price of eggs fell
 Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The New Rules of the Game
Starring: David Ogden Stiers
Director: William Cran , and Greg Barker
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The price of eggs fell.......2006-01-06

This is one of the best designs and clearest documentary on how economic reform came about. It is a must see for those that are too young or were too busy to see it happening. It is worth owning this set so one can use repeated reviewing and pick up on the nuances.

This documentary far surpasses any written works on theories (there is a companion book available). You get to see all the economists in person or film. For my part the design is not a bunch of detached sound bites but a coherent and supported (informed) display of before and after.

Not to distract from this 3 volume set there is a lesser know concept that you may find imbedded in these economic reforms. Read "The Capitalist Manifesto" by Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer Jerome Adler


Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The Agony of Reform
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The Agony of Reform
Starring: David Ogden Stiers
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Release Date: 2002-07-30

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The price of eggs fell.......2006-01-06

This is one of the best designs and clearest documentary on how economic reform came about. It is a must see for those that are too young or were too busy to see it happening. It is worth owning this set so one can use repeated reviewing and pick up on the nuances.

This documentary far surpasses any written works on theories (there is a companion book available). You get to see all the economists in person or film. For my part the design is not a bunch of detached sound bites but a coherent and supported (informed) display of before and after.

Not to distract from this 3 volume set there is a lesser know concept that you may find imbedded in these economic reforms. Read "The Capitalist Manifesto" by Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer Jerome Adler


Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: Battle of Ideas
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The price of eggs fell
 Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: Battle of Ideas
Starring: David Ogden Stiers
Director: William Cran , and Greg Barker
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Release Date: 2002-07-30

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The price of eggs fell.......2006-01-06

This is one of the best designs and clearest documentary on how economic reform came about. It is a must see for those that are too young or were too busy to see it happening. It is worth owning this set so one can use repeated reviewing and pick up on the nuances.

This documentary far surpasses any written works on theories (there is a companion book available). You get to see all the economists in person or film. For my part the design is not a bunch of detached sound bites but a coherent and supported (informed) display of before and after.

Not to distract from this 3 volume set there is a lesser know concept that you may find imbedded in these economic reforms. Read "The Capitalist Manifesto" by Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer Jerome Adler


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