Commanding Heights - The Battle for the World Economy (2002)

Episode 3 - The New Rules of the Game

"The constituency of capitalism has always been poor people that are outside the
system. Capitalism is essentially a tool for poor people to prosper."
- Hernando de Soto

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Encoded With.....: AutoGK
Audio Codec......: MP3 VBR
Audio Bitrate....: 128 kbit/s
Video Codec......: DIVX 6
Video Bitrate....: 695 kbit/s
Video Info.......: 29.97 fps 416x240
Size.............: 704 MB
Rating...........: 8.0/10 (33 votes)

IMDB -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319210/

The entire film can be viewed/previewed online -> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/hi/story

CHAPTER LIST - EPISODE 3: THE NEW RULES OF THE GAME

Chapter 1: Prologue
Chapter 2: The Global Idea
Chapter 3: NAFTA: The First Test
Chapter 4: Crossing Borders, Mexico
Chapter 5: The Global Market
Chapter 6: Emerging Market Hunters
Chapter 7: Averting a Meltdown: 1994
Chapter 8: The Global Village
Chapter 9: China and the Tigers
Chapter 10: The Japanese Paradox
Chapter 11: Global Contagion Begins
Chapter 12: Contagion Engulfs Asia, Indonesia Implodes
Chapter 13: Russia Defaults
Chapter 14: The Crisis Reaches America, LTCM
Chapter 15: Anti-Globalization Movement
Chapter 16: The Streets of Seattle, Free-trade Double Standard
Chapter 17: Failure at the Summit, The World Bank Under Attack
Chapter 18: The Global Divide, Poverty
Chapter 19: Capitalism Redefined
Chapter 20: The Bottom End of Globalism
Chapter 21: Changing of the Guard
Chapter 22: The Battle Resumed, Quebec City 2001, Protests
Chapter 23: After 9/11

CAST

BILL CLINTON               ....  President of the United States of America, 1993-2001
VICENTE FOX                ....  President of Mexico
RICHARD CHENEY             ....  Vice President of the United States of America
JEFFREY SACHS              ....  Director, Columbia University Earth Institute
MILTON FRIEDMAN            ....  Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
GEORGE SHULTZ              ....  U.S. Secretary of State, 1982-1989
LARRY LINDSEY              ....  Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy, 2001-2002
LAWRENCE SUMMERS           ....  President of Harvard University; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1999-2001
ROBERT RUBIN               ....  U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1995-1999
PAUL VOLCKER               ....  Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, 1979-1987
HERNANDO DE SOTO           ....  Economist; Founder and Director, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru
RICHARD GEPHARDT           ....  Democratic Leader, U.S. House of Representatives, 1989-2002
NEWT GINGRICH              ....  Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1995-1999
MARK MOBIUS                ....  President, Templeton Emerging Markets
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV          ....  General Secretary, Communist Party, USSR, 1985-1991
ANATOLY CHUBAIS            ....  First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, 1994-1996
VLADIMIR POTANIN           ....  President, Interros Holding Company
GRIGORY YAVLINSKY          ....  Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, 1990
YEGOR GAIDAR               ....  Acting Prime Minister of Russia, 1992
LEE KUAN YEW               ....  Senior Minister of Singapore
DR. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD   ....  Prime Minister of Malaysia
GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA  ....  President of Bolivia, 1993-1997, 2002-2003
MANMOHAN SINGH             ....  Finance Minister of India, 1991-1996
THEA LEE                   ....  Assistant Director for International Economics, AFL-CIO
LORD KENNETH BAKER         ....  Conservative Party Minister of British Parliament, 1981-1992
LESZEK BALCEROWICZ         ....  Deputy Prime Minister of Finance of Poland, 1989-1991
TONY BENN                  ....  Labor Party Minister of British Parliament, 1950-2001
GORDON BROWN               ....  Labor Party Finance Minister (Chancellor of the Exchequer)
KEN CAPSTICK               ....  Former Chairman, Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers
JORGE CASTANEDA            ....  Foreign Minister of Mexico, 2001-2003
JON CORZINE                ....  First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, 1994-2001
ALEJANDRO FOXLEY           ....  Finance Minister of Chile, 1990-1994
JOSEPH STIGLITZ            ....  Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank,1997-2000
LECH WALESA                ....  President of Poland, 1990-1995
et al.

The history and impact of the new global economy are made clear--and compelling--in Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. This three-part, six-hour documentary does an astonishingly thorough job of dissecting and explaining macroeconomics and their current political and social importance without ever causing a loss of consciousness for the viewer.

Part 1, The Battle of Ideas, chronicles the history of economic thought from the start of the 20th century and its socialist reforms right through the deregulation of the 1980s.

Part 2, The Agony of Reform, explores the upheavals that such deregulation caused, focusing primarily on economic growth and gains and touching briefly on the wrenching consequences for the poor.

Part 3, The New Rules of the Game, explores the consequences of globalization, including terrorism and the contagion of market collapse.

The series makes good use of both large-and small-scale examples, and features interviews with several major world leaders. Big ideas are made extremely accessible to the average viewer (without condescension). Well worth watching.