Thanks to its later date , the documentary film is able to address many of the items Yergin and Stanislaw missed in their original book , including the Great Recession , the collapse of Asian economies , the anti-globalization movement and the September 11 attacks . All told , two of the documentary 's six hours — the entire final third — address things that happened since the original book was published . They also include free market solutions to international poverty that was not included in the book and they interview economist Hernando de Soto , whose book on the subject was not published until after the initial printing of '' The Commanding Heights ''
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