Season 13, Episode 38

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: Vienna. 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.

To find out more, check out the podcast from which this hour was drawn: “How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?”