Program One:
The Battle of Ideas
The aftermath of a catastrophic world war forces the surviving great powers to reinvent their economic systems. Three irreconcilable ideologies pit themselves against one another until a second great war pulls down fascism and undermines colonial imperialism. But with the return of peace, an essential question remains: is it free market forces or command economies under government control that can deliver the greatest good to the greatest number?
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Program Two:
The Agony of Reform
A thirty-year quest by governments both totalitarian and democratic to manage the marketplace for the welfare of society as a whole flounders. Amid economic stagnation a rebellion ignites to unleash private enterprise and dismantle the welfare state. As the great commnd economies totter and collapse across the world privatization transfers control of the economic heights back into entrepreneurial hands. The sum total of global wealth begins to expand rapidly, but so does its unequal distribution, and its volatility.
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Program Three:
The New Rules of the Game
Internet linked financial markets, unrestricted capital flows, a global workforce, transnational mergers, and currency speculation that dwarfs trade in goods and services all combine to utterly transform the global economy. But as unforeseen events unfold at unprecedented speed, global capital flows and massively leveraged hedge funds generate storm surges that make fortunes but also topple governments. Surfing the edge of chaos, can we continue to trust our welfare to capitalism's invisible hand?
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