Commanding Heights -the battle of ideas that divides our world -gov’t or market control? -communism promised good future to people (after WWI) -Keynes was advicing the UK gov’t on how to utilize money - he was trying to get money from the bankrupt Germany to pay for what they did -Borden thought it was a waste of time -France and Belgium said that the Germans should pay for what they’ve done -in 1919 Vienna was a poor country after it lost in the WWI -Socialism promised that concerns
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Econ 251 4/10/13 Commanding Heights Commanding Heights Episode 3 The new rules of the game talked about a more recent global market. This episode related to our class material in multiple ways. I heard multiple economic vocab word used that helps relate to class material. First being bonds‚ which is a debt investment in which an investor loans money to an entity that borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a fixed interest rate. Balance sheet was another word used and that is an account
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| | | |The Commanding Heights Storyline provides a complete netcast of the six-hour television program as originally broadcast -- in three | |two-hour episodes. Each episode is subdivided into chapters listed in the chapter menu‚ together with links to additional related content | |on the site.
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Dear Students. On Page 1‚ I have questions for you to think about after you watch the video. These are some of the macro implications of the global movement. I do not need you to answer these questions. Just have an understanding of some of the underlying issues. Will these questions be on the test? The answer is NO. But you have learnt some of these concepts and issues thus far in your exposure to global business environments (Chpts 1-6) and the video serves the purpose of giving you a real
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Jenny Zhang HILL Mr. Tressler 12/05/2012 Movie Commanding Heights-1 The economic informed video of Commanding Heights about the battle for the world economy and the role governments spent. The global economy will determine the future of world or nations. The episodes provided the argument between free markets versus set markets and allowed people to understand the distinction between both. I realized the ideas of the economists
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Commanding Heights Reflection My initial thought to this video was “What am I supposed to be learning?” As time went on I finally came to realize that there were three main points; socialism‚ Keynes versus Hayek and right wing versus left wing. To begin with I didn’t really understand what the concept socialism compared to capitalism or communism meant. Now I can say that socialism is basically when the government regulates the economy compared to communism which is a bit more liberal but still
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Commanding Heights documentary notes Notes meant to amplify the documentary’s points are shown in square brackets. [ ] Episode 1: The Battle of Ideas Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes were contemporaries and economists with rival views. Their two schools of thought dominated Western economic theory in the 20th century. Each had their period of dominance over the mainstream. Hayek was a believer in free markets whereas Keynes believed in strong government regulation of markets. Lenin
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International Business Commanding Heights Essay 1- “The Battle of Ideas” The social and economic catastrophe was one of the worst problems after World War I and lasted through the 20th century. The Battle of Ideas‚ was a battle between the power of government and the forces of the marketplace. For over half of a century‚ the world was moving toward a government control -- from a communist world to a mixed economy. In the 1980s the old policies of these economies began to fail dramatically
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_The Commanding Heights: The Battle of Ideas_ episode explains the economy’s change in structure between 1914 and 1970‚ as well as the functioning of the markets and government during that time. John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek both had influential roles on the economy in the 20th century due to their opposing arguments regarding aggregate demand and classical liberalism‚ respectively. Keynes’ "planned economy" idea and Hayek’s "market economy" both fought to shape the economy into what
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Agony of Reform: Commanding Heights Part 2 The revolution of the world’s economy in the 20th and 21st centuries was very stressful‚ uncertain‚ and trying. In the 20th century‚ economic foundations were beginning to shift due to deficits and inflation. Economic strategies planned to curve the shift by governments worldwide were beginning to fail and were not fulfilling their projected results. Free-market capitalism was to blame for mass unemployment‚ the recession‚ and inflation that began to
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