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The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

  • The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World
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Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, The
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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.

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first published 1998

Last modified: 2023-09-13 (revision #152799)

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13792
OpenLibrary Work ID
OL2748131W
Wikidata Work ID
Q7726975

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