syrakusos Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 You can watch these on the PBS Website and if you are thrilled, you can buy them. The videos were produced in the wake of the book by the same title. Commanding Heights won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting. Whether and to what extent this is a purist's view of capitalism is for you to decide. The fact is that little else in the mainstream even comes as close as this does to presenting the "unknown ideal" of capitalism. They call Milton Friedman's support of Pinochet "liberalism's darkest hour." Their choices of adjectives and adverbs give equal time nods to the best wishes of socialism and capitalism alike. However, the balance sheet shows a plus in the free market accounts. If there is a star to this show, it is Friedrich von Hayek. His story from his introduction to economics, to his eclipse in the Keynesian years, to his Nobel Prize, is the thread that ties the chapters together.I read the book, then borrowed the videos from my public library. I took a few notes -- you can always learn something -- but mostly, it was a lot of good entertainment watching advocates of global capitalism take the commanding heights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Are the videos sufficient to capture most of the book's material? Sounds very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffrey smith Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Author's name?Publication date?Nowadays I don't watch TV except for the local news and an occassional Great Performances on PBS; so if this series was recent I'm certain to have missed it.Jeffrey S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merjet Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 (edited) Author's name?Publication date?http://www.amazon.com/Commanding-Heights-Battle-World-Economy/dp/068483569X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262442322&sr=1-1I also highly recommend the following by Daniel Yergin.http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262445080&sr=8-1 Edited January 2, 2010 by Merlin Jetton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrakusos Posted January 2, 2010 Author Share Posted January 2, 2010 Are the videos sufficient to capture most of the book's material? Sounds very interesting.Medium being the message, I actually enjoyed the videos more than I enjoyed the book. The reason why is that except for a couple of new facts, this is all known material. I tore through the book page by page. I did not fastforward the videos. In fact, I occasionally ran them back to catch words spoken quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffrey smith Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Author's name?Publication date?http://www.amazon.com/Commanding-Heights-Battle-World-Economy/dp/068483569X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262442322&sr=1-1I also highly recommend the following by Daniel Yergin.http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262445080&sr=8-1Thank you!I had thought it was a more recent book.I've seen The Prize, and skipped past it in the library. I wasn't familiar with Mr. Yergin's name, so I assumed it was one of the standard New York Times reporter-written books in which American lust for oil causes all the problems of the world. Will remedy that lapse next chance I get.Jeffrey S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonrobt Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Author's name?Publication date?http://www.amazon.com/Commanding-Heights-Battle-World-Economy/dp/068483569X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262442322&sr=1-1I also highly recommend the following by Daniel Yergin.http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262445080&sr=8-1Thank you!I had thought it was a more recent book.I've seen The Prize, and skipped past it in the library. I wasn't familiar with Mr. Yergin's name, so I assumed it was one of the standard New York Times reporter-written books in which American lust for oil causes all the problems of the world. Will remedy that lapse next chance I get.Jeffrey S.Videos are available on youtube - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1466397368167658753&ei=TgFAS8-4DoW0qwKnkd0z&q=the+commanding+heights&hl=en# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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