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To: maceng2 who wrote (263)	6/1/2003 7:59:38 PM
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Commanding Heights From Marx To Markets Wed 4 Jun, 11:30 pm-12:30 am 60mins 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 the critical issues that have defined the wealth and fate of nations and will shape our lives in the twenty first century. Tonight's fourth episode looks at how, in the 1990s, 'shock therapy' reached the former Soviet Union and Communist China. The programme focuses on how the Commanding Heights of the Russian economy were privatised through state auctions, and on the titanic battle that ensued for control of the former state industries. The programme also shows how ordinary Russians lived through the upheavals of rapid change, coping with new freedoms and the shock of free-wheeling competition. This episode includes interviews with former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, Former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais, and world renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs