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| Author | Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw |
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| Subject | Economics, globalization |
| Publisher | Free Press |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Pages | 488 |
| ISBN | 978-0-684-83569-3 |
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy is a book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw first published as The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World in 1998. In 2002, it was adapted as a documentary of the same title and later released on DVD.
The Commanding Heights attempts to trace the rise of free markets during the last century as well as the process of globalization. Yergin attributes the origin of the phrase commanding heights to a speech by Vladimir Lenin referring to the control of perceived key segments of a national economy.[1][2][failed verification]
- ^ The Commanding Heights: Episode One: The Battle of Ideas (Television Production). PBS. 2002. Event occurs at 15:47 from the beginning of the episode (4:51 from the beginning of the chapter). OCLC 50427119.
His critics, he said, were fools, were stupid, because the state, the government, the Bolsheviks would control the overall economy: steel, railroads, coal, the heavy industries -- what he called the "commanding heights" of the economy.
. Transcript for Episode One: The Battle of Ideas.Video for Chapter 3: Communism on the Heights [6:16] (Quicktime 5 format). - ^ Siegel, Fred. "The Harder They Fall". Democratic Leadership Council. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012.
Lenin coined the phrase "the commanding heights" in 1922 when he temporarily relaxed government controls over Soviet agriculture even as he maintained a tight grip on big industry.