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alchemist. In 2007, the highly symbolic
Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland/House of the History of the Federal German Republic extoled Schwab as an outstanding manager.[1] How flattered Klaus Schwab must have been, on top of his two PhDs and sixteen honorary doctor titles[2] and despite his Brazilian friend disregarding academic custom, to be anointed
Alchemist! Paul Coelho’s novel
The
Alchemist may have introduced speculative philosophy and white magic to a broader public but welcoming the WEF founder to the ranks of quackery requires closer inspection.
Schwab’s tendency to doctor the world far exceeds Thomas Mann’s esoteric imprint on a Magic Mountain of Davos backdrop.[3] German literary research[4] has long exhausted what the formerly apprenticed mechanical engineer calls