A Conversation with Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman & CEO of The Blackstone Group

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

My interview with Stephen A. Schwarzman - He’s the man who took $400,000 and co-founded Blackstone, the investment firm that manages over $545 billion. He’s the CEO whose views are sought by heads of state. He’s the billionaire philanthropist who founded Schwarzman Scholars, this century’s version of the Rhodes Scholarship,…

19-10-2023 12:16:00

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

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On Identity: A Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self,” wrote Haruki Murakami in his book Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche “…humans, however, can't live very long without some sense of a continuing story. Such stories go beyond the limited…

19-10-2023 12:16:00

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Thought Economics

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Diseases of the Heart

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

I want you to make a fist and hold it just to the left of the centre of your chest. Just under your ribs, is an organ, around that size, which will beat around 3 billion times in your lifetime pumping blood around the 100,000 miles of vessels that supply…

19-10-2023 12:16:00

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Thought Economics

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A Conversation with Ece Temelkuran on How to Lose a Country, in 7 Steps.

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

“I am one of the early birds…” Ece Temelkuran told me, “I saw democracy collapse in Turkey and tried to warn the United States, European Countries and Britain about this. I’ve been telling people that what you think is normal, or a passing phase, is part of a bigger phenomenon…

19-10-2023 12:16:01

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Thought Economics

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