The battle of ideas

Cran, William. (Added Author). Yergin, Daniel. (Added Author). Sullivan, Michael. (Added Author). Stiers, David Ogden. (Added Author). Yergin, Daniel. Commanding heights. (Added Author). InVision Productions. (Added Author). Heights Productions. (Added Author). WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) (Added Author).

Summary: The battle of ideas identifies how the world, for much of the twentieth century, first moved toward more government control and then began to move away. The program focuses on the struggle between two economic thinkers, John Maynard Keynes, whose ideas on government intervention dominated much of the twentieth century, and Freidrich Von Hayek, whose free-market ideas were largely ignored until the economic crises of the 1970s forced political leaders to rediscover them. In the 1980s, the simultaneous emergence of the governments of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan set the stage for a worldwide capitalist revolution- one that will be tested by economic turmoil in the future.

Record details

ISBN: 1578079373
ISBN: 9781578079377
ISBN: 1578079381
ISBN: 9781578079384
Physical Description: videodisc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Boston : WGBH Boston Video, �2003.

Content descriptions

Creation/Production Credits Note:	Executive producer Michael Sullivan.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrated by David Ogden Stiers.
System Details Note:	DVD.