About this episode
From politics and economics to psychology and the arts, many of the modern ideas we take for granted emerged a century ago from a single European capital. In this episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, the historian Richard Cockett explores all those ideas — and how the arrival of fascism can ruin in a few years what took generations to build. SOURCE: Richard Cockett , author and senior editor at The Economist . RESOURCES: Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World , by Richard Cockett (2023). " Birth, Death and Shopping ," ( The Economist, 2007). The Hidden Persuaders , by Vance Packard (1957). " An Economist's View of 'Planning ,'" by Henry Hazlitt ( The New York Times, 1944). The World of Yesterday: Memoires of a European , by Stefan Zweig (1942). EXTRA: " Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Some Advice for You ," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024). Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.