Free Press
The Commanding Heights
Key Metrics
- Daniel Yergin
- Free Press
- Paperback
- 9780684835693
- 9.24 X 6.2 X 1.25 inches
- 1.32 pounds
- Business & Economics > Economics - Theory
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
A brilliant narrative history, The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful economic forces at work in the world today, and about the people and the ideas that are shaping the future. Across the globe, it has become increasingly accepted dogma that economic activities should be dominated by market forces, not political concerns. With chapters on Europe, the US, Britain, the Third World, the Arab States, Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the former communist countries, Yergin and Stanislaw provide an incisive overview of the state of the economy, and of the battles between governments and markets in each region. Now updated throughout and with two new chapters, The Commanding Heights explains a revolution which is unfolding before our very eyes.
Author Bio
Dr. Daniel Yergin is a recognized authority on energy, international politics and economics. He is Vice Chairman of IHS Markit and chairman of its CERAWeek by IHS Markit energy conference.
He is the author of several books including The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World.
In 2014 the U.S. Department of Energy presented Dr. Yergin with the first “James R. Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security.” He is a recipient of the United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.”
Dr. Yergin is a director of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of the Brookings Institution. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council and a director of the United States Energy Association. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative and of the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy.
Source: Energy.gov
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