About this title: In this title, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author joins with a leading expert on the new marketplace to explain the revolution in ideas that is transforming economic power around the world. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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"If you want to know how the economic world got to where it is today from the position it was in after World War II, then this is the book to read. You need not be an economist to understand the process as the author is careful to define terms, to go back to the origin of concepts and to present economic schools of thought in uncluttered prose.
Yergin follows the progression of economic thinking as it developed from the "corporatist" idea of the 1940's to the free market thinking that dominates the world today. Why were people so eager to try out socialist ideas? What experiences formed minds wary of unfettered capitalism, even in the United States?
Then, later on, why were political leaders driven to discard the government-led model of the economy that had seemed so full of promise? Why would governments willingly get out of the business of business?
Following the process of freeing the markets that began in the 1970's with Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain and was taken up by the Reagan "revolution" in the United States, Yergin takes us around the world to find out how the process worked and who the people behind it were from Bolivia to Malaysia and many countries in between.
Many times while reading this book, I found myself exclaiming, "so, THAT'S what happened!" even as the events being described were ones that I have lived through. We all live busy lives where we can't attend to even major events, let along follow trends that progress through the years. It's great to gain the depth of understanding that such books as this can provide. If you are at all interesting in the economy (and we all should be) then get The Commanding Heights. I checked it out from the library and followed my read by purchasing a copy for my bookshelf."
"Having failed to procure an 'appropriate' beach-book, I took The Commanding Heights out of sheer necessity. Turns out, it's quite the page-turner. Essentially a review of economic policies around the world since WW2 and the effect on their respective countries, the book manages to be both scholarly and engrossing."
"Incredible book about the history of the macro economy and the government's role (versus) teh private sector's role, in "steering" the national and global economy."
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