The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

By Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw

Categories: Business & Money, History

The Commanding Heights (1998) by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw is a history of the 20th-century contest between governments and markets for control of the economy. They follow the rise of state planning and nationalization after World War II. They then trace the shift toward markets under Thatcher, Reagan and Deng Xiaoping, and in Latin America, India and the former Soviet bloc. It was made into a PBS series.

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