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.
587. Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?
Extra: Why Is 23andMe Going Under? (Update)
585. A Social Activist in Prime Minister’s Clothing
584. How to Pave the Road to Hell
Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)
Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Update)
583. Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?
Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?
582. Why Is Everyone Moving to Canada?
581. What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration
Extra: Madeleine Albright’s Warning on Immigration
580. The True Story of America’s Supremely Messed-Up Immigration System
579. Are You Caught in a Social Media Trap?
Extra: What Is Sportswashing — and Does It Work? (Update)
578. Water, Water Everywhere — But You Have to Stop and Think
Is Google Getting Worse? (Update)
Extra: Mr. Feynman Takes a Trip — But Doesn’t Fall
The Vanishing Mr. Feynman
The Brilliant Mr. Feynman
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