Thought Economics

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL Interviews the world's leading thinkers, and the people shaping the century.

A Conversation with Gary Vaynerchuk

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

To learn more about how to build the brand of an entrepreneur, I caught up with Gary Vaynerchuk- one of the world’s most recognised entrepreneurs, with (at the time of writing) over 1.32 million twitter followers, over 1.22 million facebook fans and many videos on youtube with more than 500,000…

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A Conversation with Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder of Foursquare

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

Dennis Crowley is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Foursquare, Chairman of Kingston Stockade Football Club and a serial entrepreneur and investor across tech. I caught up with Dennis to learn more about his career in entrepreneurship.

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How We Can Change the World

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

L.A. Kauffman has spent more than thirty years immersed in radical movements, as a journalist, historian, organizer, and strategist. I caught up with L.A. to learn more about how organised movements can create lasting change.

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Why We Embrace (and Resist) Innovation

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

The roots of resistance to new technologies, why such resistance is not always futile and how 600 years of economic history show how the balance of winners and losers shapes technological controversies

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A Conversation with John Caudwell, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist

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

By the time John Caudwell sold his company in 2006, the business was selling 26 phones a minute. It employed 10,000 people in the UK and abroad. It was turning over £2.25 billion. I caught up with John to learn more about his life in entrepreneurship and philanthropy.

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My Conversation with Frederik Paulsen, Jr. – Billionaire, Entrepreneur, Explorer and Philanthropist

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

“Can you hear me OK? It’s not a great line…” those were some of my first words to Frederik Paulsen, Jr. – the Chairman of Ferring Pharmaceuticals; a company he inherited as a small family concern (with revenues of around U$15 million), and which he turned into a global biopharmaceuticals…

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Water

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

The Story of Humanity’s Relationship With its Most Precious Resource. In this interview series we speak to Guy Ryder (Chair, UN-Water & Director General of the International Labour Organisation, ILO), Professor Steven Chu (Nobel Prize Winning Scientist & 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy), Dr Peter Gleick (President Emeritus & Chief…

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A Conversation with Usain Bolt – The World’s Fastest Man

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

My conversation with Usain Bolt - the world's fastest man.

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Racism

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

In this article we talk to Frank Willem (FW) de Klerk (Former President of South Africa and Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize), George Takei (Actor & Social Justice Activist), Prof. Githu Muigai (Attorney General of Kenya), Patrisse Cullors (Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter), Dr. Nils Muiznieks (the Council of…

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On Portugal: A Conversation with H. E. António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal

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

On Portugal: A Conversation with H. E. António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal

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My Experiences of Being Brown: The Realities of Race and Racism in the U.K.

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

For the first time in over 20 years, I feel brown... I find myself being extra careful in terms of how I dress, where I go, how I speak, what I carry and how I behave; not to conform to any new social norms- but rather, so that people don't…

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Learning To Be Who We Are

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

In these exclusive interviews we speak to Sir Antony Gormley (One of the world’s most influential sculptors), Bear Grylls (Adventurer, TV Host & Author), Marina Abramović (internationally acclaimed performance artist), Sir Ken Robinson (widely considered to be the world’s foremost expert on creativity, innovation and human resources in education and…

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The Hidden Economics You Need to Get More of What You Want; A Conversation with Professor Judd B. Kessler

In this interview I speak to Judd B. Kessler, the inaugural Howard Marks Endowed Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. We discuss the hidden markets that determine almost everything in our lives, and how to tip the scales in our favour.

Our Brains on Music: A Conversation with Daniel J. Levitin – Musician, Neuroscientist & Author.

In this interview, I speak to Daniel J. Levitin- an award-winning neuroscientist, musician, and best-selling author. His research encompasses music, the brain, health, productivity, and creativity. He is the author of four New York Times bestselling books: This Is Your Brain On Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized…

Taking a Business From £0 to £4 Billion – A Conversation with Entrepreneur, Richard Harpin

In this interview I speak to Richard Harpin, the founder of HomeServe, a global consumer services company that reached FTSE 100 status before its £4.1 billion acquisition by Brookfield Asset Management. A lifelong entrepreneur, Richard’s passion for business has driven his success.

A Conversation with Dr. Russell Kennedy, The Anxiety MD

Dr. Russell Kennedy—known to many as The Anxiety MD—is a physician, neuroscientist, and leading voice on the emotional and physiological roots of anxiety. Drawing on his own lived experience with childhood trauma and years of clinical practice, Kennedy has developed a unique mind–body approach to healing, blending neuroscience, developmental psychology,…

Business & Economics (347)

The Hidden Economics You Need to Get More of What You Want; A Conversation with Professor Judd B. Kessler

Taking a Business From £0 to £4 Billion – A Conversation with Entrepreneur, Richard Harpin

Making AI Safe: The Race to Control Humanity’s Most Important Invention.

In these conversations, I spoke with three of the world’s foremost thinkers on AI safety, risk & governance —Clark Barrett (Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and Co-Director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety), Nick Bostrom (Founder of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and the Macrostrategy…

The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status on Society – A Conversation with Professor Toby E. Stuart.

In this interview I speak to one of the world’s foremost experts on social hierarchies, Toby E. Stuart. Professor Stuart is the Leo Helzel distinguished professor of business administration at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and author of Anointed: The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World. He is…

Culture, Society, Sports & Arts (229)

Our Brains on Music: A Conversation with Daniel J. Levitin – Musician, Neuroscientist & Author.

On the Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World – A Conversation with Professor Harvey Whitehouse.

In this interview I speak to Professor Harvey Whitehouse, one of the world’s foremost anthropologists- whose research focuses on the evolution of social complexity. Harvey is one of the founders of the cognitive science of religion and has spent decades studying how beliefs and rituals have shaped, and reshaped human…

A Conversation with James Barclay, Jaguar TCS Racing Team Principal & Managing Director of JLR Motorsport.

In this interview I speak to James Barclay, Jaguar TCS Racing Team Principal & Managing Director of JLR Motorsport. We talk about the power of the Jaguar brand, how Jaguar decided to enter Formula E, and what it takes to build a championship winning motor racing team from scratch.

A Conversation with Sahil Bloom on “The 5 Types of Wealth”

In this interview I speak to Sahil Bloom, author of “The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life" which Apple CEO Tim Cook calls, “a powerful call to action to think deeply about what lights you up—and a guide for how to build a life…

Health & Medicine (68)

A Conversation with Dr. Russell Kennedy, The Anxiety MD

Reimaging the Mind-Body Connection – A Conversation with Ellen J. Langer, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

In this interview I speak to Ellen J. Langer, Harvard’s first tenured female psychology professor and a trailblazer in social psychology, who has spent over 45 years upending assumptions about the human mind. Known for her groundbreaking “counterclockwise” study—where elderly men reversed signs of aging by living as their younger…

A Conversation with Dr. Laurie Santos, One of the World’s Foremost Experts on Happiness & Human Cognition.

In this interview I speak to Dr. Laurie Santos, one of the world’s foremost experts on happiness and human cognition. Laurie is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab, one of the most popular podcasts…

A Conversation with Dr. Martha Beck on Anxiety, Creativity & Finding Life’s Purpose.

In this interview, I speak to Dr. Martha Beck, PhD, bestselling author, coach, and speaker. She has spent a lifetime offering powerful, practical, and entertaining teachings that help people improve every aspect of their lives. Martha holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one…

Nobel Laureates (20)

A Conversation with Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, UNODC Goodwill Ambassador & Founder of Nadia’s Initiative.

Human rights activist and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Nadia Murad is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. Her New York Times bestselling memoir, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, is a harrowing account of the…

Noise and the Flaws in Human Judgement – A Conversation with Daniel Kahneman & Cass R Sunstein.

In Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement, Nobel Prize Winner, Daniel Kahneman together with co-authors Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein show how noise helps produce errors in many fields, including medicine, law, public health, economic forecasting, food safety, forensic science, bail verdicts, child protection, strategy, performance reviews and personnel…

On Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies: A Nobel Prize Winning Economist and a World Expert on Blockchain.

In 2008, during the turbulence of a global financial crisis, a person (or group) called Satoshi Nakamoto released a white-paper called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. The principle was simple but revolutionary- a technique to record digital transactions in a way that was public, permanent and verifiable without requiring…

From Homeless to Nobel Prize Winner: A Conversation with Dr. Mario Capecchi.

Dr. Mario Capecchi has had a remarkable life. At four-and-a-half years old, during World War II, his mother was sent to Dachau concentration camp leading-eventually- to Mario living as a street child for nearly four years, coming in and out of orphanages and almost dying of malnutrition. From this hugely…

Politics & Policy (160)

Making AI Safe: The Race to Control Humanity’s Most Important Invention.

The Revolution to Come: A Conversation with Professor Dan Edelstein on the History and Significance of Revolutions as Engines of Change.

In this interview I speak to Stanford Professor, Dan Edelstein. Dan is one of the world’s foremost experts on revolution, social change and political history- and in this wide ranging conversation, we discuss how the concept of revolution- once seen as the greatest of all political dangers, came to be…

On the Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World – A Conversation with Professor Harvey Whitehouse.

A Conversation with Sir Laurie Bristow, Former UK Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Russia and Afghanistan.

In this interview I speak to Sir Laurie Bristow, former UK Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Russia and Afghanistan. We discuss the role of diplomacy in our world, the role of diplomats in global peace and security, and what we can learn from when diplomacy goes right, and when it goes wrong.

Science & Technology (123)

Our Brains on Music: A Conversation with Daniel J. Levitin – Musician, Neuroscientist & Author.

Making AI Safe: The Race to Control Humanity’s Most Important Invention.

A Conversation with the Inventor of the Microprocessor, Federico Faggin, on Quantum Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence & Consciousness.

Federico Faggin invented the technology which made the microprocessor possible His semiconductor memory technology was adopted by Intel, and the microprocessor revolution began. Federico went on to found a number of businesses- and was additionally responsible for the technology that makes the touchpads and touchscreens on our modern day devices…

A Conversation with Professor Brian Cox on Finding Meaning in the Universe.

Professor Brian Cox is widely recognized as the foremost communicator for science, cosmology and astronomy in the world, and is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society. In this interview, we discuss…