• 22. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?

  • May 2 2024
  • Length: 57 mins
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22. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?

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  • 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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