The Library of Mistakes
Library of Mistakes
Based in Edinburgh, the Library of Mistakes is a free public library designed to improve understanding of finance, one mistake at a time. In this podcast series the Library's Keeper, Professor Russell Napier, speaks to leading financial history authors around the world, with Fraser Allen & Leila Johnston presenting an additional thread of episodes called Shelf Life.Series produced by Fraser Allen.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Library of Mistakes podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Noise
A Flaw in Human Judgment
Olivier Sibony
Daniel Kahneman
Cass R. Sunstein
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Money, the Unauthorized Biography
Felix Martin
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
A History of Financial Crises
Charles P. Kindleberger
Robert Z. Aliber
Robert McCauley
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Midnight Diaries
Boris Yeltsin
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Great Wave
David Hackett Fischer
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices
Gordon Pepper
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The invention of Russia
Arkady Ostrovsky
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Meltdown, Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse
Duncan Maven
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Signal and the Noise
Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't
Nate Silver
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Poor Economics
A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty
Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A free nation deep in debt
James Macdonald
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Gifts of Athena
Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
Joel Mokyr
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Nudge
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler
Cass R. Sunstein
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Perestroika
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Career and Family
Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity
Claudia Goldin
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Money and Empire
Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System
Perry Mehrling
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Good Economics for Hard Times
Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Shredded
Ian Fraser
