Vance Packard

May 1, 2024 | freakonomics.com | Stephen Dubner |Richard Cockett |Vance Packard |Stefan Zweig

Episode 22 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.

May 1, 2024 | freakonomics.com | Stephen Dubner |Richard Cockett |Vance Packard |Stefan Zweig

Once upon a time, there was a place that was so dynamic that it seemed as if the future had already arrived. Richard COCKETT: They were trying to take all the most modern disciplines — physiology, medicine, mathematics, statistics — and apply all these new disciplines to building a new civilization. You may think I’m talking about someplace like ancient Athens, or Alexandria. But no, this was much more recent — during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And: it didn’t last.

Nov 3, 2023 | businesshistory.domain-b.com | Vance Packard

Have you ever got that nasty feeling that you are being watched? Watched wherever you are, wherever you go, whatever you do? I just finished a novel by James Patterson, called The Store, about which one reviewer had this to say: ‘This book is creepy because the premise is very real … Anything that you do online tells the world a little more about you. That information can b... Read full book review