586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?
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.
Episode 586 of the Freakonomics Radio podcast, hosted by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher, titled "586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?" was published on May 2, 2024 and runs 57 minutes.
May 2, 2024 ·57m · Freakonomics Radio
Summary
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.
Episode Description
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).
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