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).