Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy — Season 1, Episode 2: The Agony of Reform
Documentary • 120 min • 1 season, 3 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
As the 1980s begin and the Cold War grinds on, the existing world order appears firmly in place. Yet beneath the surface powerful currents are carving away at the economic foundations. Western democracies still struggle with deficits and inflation, while communism hides the failure of its command economy behind a facade of military might. Worldwide, the strategies of government planning are failing to produce their intended results. As the command economies totter and collapse, privatization transfers economic power back into entrepreneurial hands, and whole societies go through wrenching change.
About Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.