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The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy (revised and updated)
The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy (revised and updated) Summary:By Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw
The Pulitzer Prize-winning 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-winner Daniel Yergin and international business advisor Joseph Stanislaw, are those dominant enterprises and industries that form the high economic ground in nations around the globe. In their analysis of the new world economy, The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World, they examine "the individuals, the ideas, the conflicts, and the turning points" that are responsible. And by considering events such as the ongoing Asian monetary crisis, they suggest what the ultimate interconnection of financial markets might mean in the future.From Booklist Yergin and Stanislaw's global tour d'horizon doesn't extrapolate from the discrediting of various shades of socialism that free markets are here to stay. The situation varies from country to country. The authors report on the post-World War II performance of significant national economies and, moreover, on the politicians who, starting with Margaret Thatcher, advocated the disengagement of the state from the economy. This work complements Robert Skidelsky's Road from Serfdom (1996), a readable analysis of how the predictions of free-market economist F. A. Hayek came true. The authors supplement their research with interviews of influential economists and politicians over the past two decades, such as those who implemented "shock therapies" in ex-communist countries. The authors' judgments are reasoned and seasoned, far from podium-pounding homilies on the free market; rather, they explain why the welfare state was so appealing after the war, then how it gradually sputtered into 1970s stagflation. Renders wide-ranging acquaintance with the basic ideas of contemporary economics. Contents Introduction: At the Frontier Why the Shift? The Power of Ideas Relinking Past and Future Critical Tests List of Illustrations 1 Thirty Glorious Years: Europe's Mixed Economy Toward the Mixed Economy Britain: Making Good on the Promise Conquering the Commanding Heights "We Work Things Out Practically" France: "The Levers of Command" The Cognac Salesman The Plan: "Modernization or Decadence"? Germany: Lucky Strikes and "Chicken Feed" The Ordoliberals and the Social Market Erhard: "Pay No Attention" The Wirtschaftswunder Italy: The National Champion "The Encroachment" of John Maynard Keynes Trade and National Power "You Never Had It So Good" 2 The Curse of Bigness: America's Regulatory Capitalism The Rise of Regulation The People's Lawyer Normalcy, "Not Nostrums" The New Deal: "I Never Felt Surer of Anything" "The Prophet of Regulation" Keynes' American Beachhead Toward Full Employment Regulation and Reform The Last Liberal Administration Malaise and Inflation 3 Tryst with Destiny: The Rise of the Third World Nation Building Nehru's Discovery "Tractors and Big Machinery" "The Idea of Planning" The Permit Raj "An Agenda for a Better World": The Development Economists "The Bank" The Rise of the State-owned Company "The Wind of Change" "First the Political Kingdom" Marketing Boards: The Tools of Control The Volta Dam: The High Tide of African Socialism "Third Worldism" Good-bye, Coca-Cola The End of an Idea 4 The Mad Monk: Britain's Market Revolution "My Closest Political Friend" "The Minister of Thought" The "U-Turn" The "Conversion" of Keith Joseph The Leadership Battle "No Time to Be Mealy-mouthed" "There Are No Trains Today" "Now for the Real Battle" The "Wets" Versus the "Drys" "The Lady's Not for Turning" The Falklands War: "The Unexpected Happens" The Decisive Battle The Birth of Privatization But How to Do It? A Far Bigger Program "A Bit of an Institution" "Always with Beliefs" 5 Crisis of Confidence: The Global Critique Crisis of Confidence The Debt Crisis and the Lost Decade The National Champions Red Star Sinking Asian Star Rising New Zealand: "You've Got No Economy" Friedrich von Hayek and the "Battle of Ideas" The Road to Serfdom The Chicago School Grudging Respect The Emergence of Emerging Markets Financial Integration 6 Beyond the Miracle: Asia's Emergence Japan: "I'll Go for Income Doubling" The Iron Triangle: "The 1955 System" A "Suicide Act" for Bureaucrats The Lost Decade Korea: The Pros and Cons of Picking Winners Taiwan: Confucian Capitalism The Supertechnocrats Singapore: The State as Venture Capitalist Malaysia: The Sons of the Soil Asia, Inc The End of the Miracle? Becoming "Relevant to the World" 7 The Color of the Cat: China's Transformation Catching Mice The Reform Begins "Bird in a Cage" "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" Reform and Retrenchment Tiananmen Square The Nanxun: Deng's Last Campaign The Two Economies "A New Tiger" "One Country, Two Systems" Breaking with Conventions China and the World Economy China Adapts 8 After the Permit Raj: India's Awakening "Up the Marxist Mountain" The Dynasty The Crisis "No Head for Figures" Waking Up "A Functionless Capitalism" "A Vastly Different Role" Sunset of the Permit Raj Drawing on Its Best Brains The Hindu Rate of Growth 9 Playing by the Rules: The New Game in Latin America Shock Therapy: Decree 21060 Dependencia Rules The Lost Decade The New Consensus: "We Asked Too Much" The Technopols Chile: The Ambiguous Role Model The Paradox of Argentina The Broom Maker's Son Privatization Peru: The Agronomist and the Book Writer Fujishock Market Economy "with a Human Face" Brazil: Dependentista Turned Inflation Slayer Mexico: The Diffusion of Power "We Must Change Things" Rediscovering the State 10 Ticket to the Market: The Journey After Communism Poland's Crisis: The Beginning of the End The Phone Call "My Ludwig Erhard" Market Revolution "Stop Looking to the Top" The Two Václavs The Soviet Command Economy The Marriage of the Hedgehog and the Snake Market Making An Orderly Transition? Revolution—Or Radical Reform Everything—As Rapidly as You Can The Essential Element: Creating Private Property A Ticket to the Free Economy Communists on the Rise Privatizing the Commanding Heights "I Would Do The Same Tomorrow" Russia Defaults "Successful Product of Soviet Education" No Turning Back The End of Isolation 11 The Commitment: Europe's Search for a New Social Contract The Double Retreat France: "The Break with Capitalism" M. Delors and the Second Left "Cash-Flow Incinerators" The Great U-Turn Socialists "Efface the State" Stagnation and Euro-pessimism The Single Market: Relaunching Europe Flying in the Face of History? Buba Knows Best? "The D-mark Comes" The Commitment Privatization and Restructuring New Leaders for New Europe The Costs of the Welfare State Europe's New Quest 12 The Delayed Revolution: America's New Balance "Big Government Is Over" The Outsider "Mugged by Reality" The Central Banker Beyond Tax and Spend A Delayed Revolution From Capture to Competition "Plums "and "Dogs" "Marginal Costs with Wings" For Whom the Bell Tolls Where the Money Is Electricity: The Collapse of the "Compact" "We're Teachable" Social Regulation: Expanding Its Reach The "Rights Explosion" Going Private, American-Style Education and the Welfare Frontier "As Old as the Country" 13 The Age of Globalization: The Battle for the World Economy The New Line-up What, After All, Is Globalization? How New? The First Age of Globalization Signals of Integration Reconnecting: Postwar Foundations of Globalization After the Seventies: From Trade to Capital Markets The Closed-Economies Relink The Second Age of Globalization New Concerns Not the End of Government 14 The Balance of Confidence: The New Rules of the Game A New Consensus? The Woven World The Company in the Mobile Economy Judging on Results: Critical Tests 1. Delivering the Goods? 2. Ensuring Fairness? 3. Securing the Environment? 4. Coping with Demographics? 5. Upholding Identity? The Balance of Confidence Chronology Notes Interviews Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Authors Summary: Through Information Rating: 4 Very through in the information provided. Reading the book along with the documentary that is available online is also helpful. Summary: Its not over yetRating: 4 This book documents the world's struggle to find an optimal economic system during the 20th century. It documents the failures of Socialism, Communism,and most other "ism's" and leads the reader to the conclusion that the clear winner is Free Market Capitalism. The only problem is the book ends shortly after the beginning of the 21st century while the world has continued to struggle and Capitalism itself has been called into question following its near collapse in 2008. A very educational read but certainly no definitive conclusions should be drawn as if History ended in 2000. Summary: I learned so muchRating: 5 This shows the links and relationships between the various economic theories and the real changes in the world. It shows, most importantly to our security, the relationship between economies and military defense. It shows how the arms race with USSR ultimately brought down the giant and how economy is critical to national security in ability to maintain a large and well-equipped standing army. It also shows how the interconnection of economies in trade agreements and exports and imports undermines the interest in aggressive actions. I never understood the depth and range of the interconnection between defense and economy, between security and quality of life.
Rating: 5 The book got to me quickly and in perfect condition. I have to read it for my economic geography class. It's interesting to get insight on so many influential events that led to how the markets function today. Summary: Excellent economic and geopolitical historyRating: 5 The struggle between governments and markets - the central theme of this book - is still very relevant a decade after it was published. An excellent history of economic changes in the 20th century and a must read for those who want to understand how the general direction and makeup of the world economy is directed by political leaders like Thatcher and Deng and by periodic crisis and historical turning points like the 1970s inflation and oil shocks and the fall of communism and the Asian financial crisis. Please select one mirror to download
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