PBS documentary on the global economy

[Tim Shorrock]

Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 11:11:45 -0400
From: Diane Monaco <dmonaco at pop3.utoledo.edu>
Subject: PBS documentary on the global economy

Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/

    Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy is a three-part,

    six-hour documentary series and Web site. Providing a comprehensive

    history of the ideas, events, and values that have shaped the present

    global economy...

I saw the first episode, and I have to say it was fascinating and made a lot
of sense to my wife Kathy, a storyteller and nurse who always tells me she
can't make head or tails of what I spend most of my time writing about. But
in glancing through the book that serves as the basis for the series, I
found some ghastly errors in the short section on Korea, a country I know a
little bit about. So it made me wonder how good their research is/was for
other countries - and who did their fact-checking.

TS