The Commanding Heights
eBook - ePub

The Commanding Heights

The Battle Between Government And The Marketplace

  1. 512 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Commanding Heights

The Battle Between Government And The Marketplace

About this book

The most powerful force in the world economy today is the redefinition of the relationship between state and marketplace - a process that goes by the name of privatization though this term is inadequate to express its far-reaching changes. We are moving from an era in which governments sought to seize and control the 'commanding heights' of the economy to an era in which the idea of free markets is capturing the commanding heights of world economic thinking. Basic views of how society ought to be organized are undergoing rapid change, trillions of dollars are changing hands and so is fundamental political power. Great new wealth is being created - as are huge opportunities and huge risks. Taking a worldwide perspective, including Britain, where the process began with Mrs Thatcher, Europe and the former USSR, China, Latin America and the US, THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS shows how a revolution in ideas is transforming the world economy - why it is happening, how it can go wrong and what it will mean for the global economy going into the twenty-first century.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. COLOPHON PAGE
  3. ALSO BY DANIEL YERGIN
  4. TITLE PAGE
  5. COPYRIGHT
  6. DEDICATION
  7. CONTENTS
  8. INTRODUCTION: AT THE FRONTIER
  9. 1 THIRTY GLORIOUS YEARS: Europe's Mixed Economy
  10. 2 THE CURSE OF BIGNESS: America's Regulatory Capitalism
  11. 3 TRYST WITH DESTINY: The Rise of the Third World
  12. 4 THE MAD MONK: Britain's Market Revolution
  13. 5 CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE: The Global Critique
  14. 6 BEYOND THE MIRACLE: Asia's Emergence
  15. 7 THE COLOR OF THE CAT: China's Transformation
  16. 8 AFTER THE PERMIT RAJ: India's Awakening
  17. 9 PLAYING BY THE RULES: The New Game in Latin America
  18. 10 TICKET TO THE MARKET: The Journey After Communism
  19. 11 THE PREDICAMENT: Europe's Searchfor a New Social Contract
  20. 12 THE DELAYED REVOLUTION: America's New Balance
  21. 13 THE BALANCE OF CONFIDENCE: The World After Reform
  22. CHRONOLOGY
  23. NOTES
  24. INTERVIEWS
  25. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  26. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  27. ABOUT THE AUTHORS