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

05.02.2024 - By Freakonomics Radio + StitcherPlay

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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.

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