Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2024-05-02
Books mentioned on 586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?
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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig is a biographical and historical examination of the rich cultural life and tragic demise of the renowned Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, whose memoir The World of Yesterday captures the lost golden age of Vienna.
Discussed“The great Viennese writer Stefan Zweig, who killed himself in 1942, left behind a memoir called 'The World of Yesterday.' It is a heartbreaking book about a Vienna that, in retrospect, didn't stand a chance.”
