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To: maceng2 who wrote (261)	6/1/2003 7:46:02 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1417

Just watched this on UK BBC4. Thought it was good. bbc.co.uk A review of 20th Century economic issues. I've emboldened a few name drops in the summary below. Lots more.. ======================================================== Commanding Heights The Battle Of Ideas The inside story of our new global economy. Based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, the series chronicles the battle for economic power; the struggle between governments and markets around the world, the turmoil and upheavals of economic reform, the emergence of a new era of globalization and the far-reaching debates about the shape of the world's economic future. Through remarkable interviews with world leaders and thinkers in twenty countries on five continents, the programme confronts critical issues that have defined the wealth and fate of nations and will shape our lives in the twenty first century. Tonight's opening episode 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. It identifies how in the early 20th Century the world moved toward more government control in the centrally planned economies of the communist world, the "mixed economies" of Europe and the developing world, and the United States' regulated capitalism. This episode includes interviews with former US President Bill Clinton, Chancellor Gordon Brown, Tony Benn, Barbara Castle, Milton Friedman and Jeffrey Sachs. ===================================================== edit: Just noticed progamming for the week ahead. The above was only the first episode, it's on at 11:30pm UK time for the next four days too. bbc.co.uk