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
Midnight Diaries
Boris Yeltsin
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Great Wave
David Hackett Fischer
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices
Gordon Pepper
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The invention of Russia
Arkady Ostrovsky
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Meltdown, Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse
Duncan Maven
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Signal and the Noise
Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't
Nate Silver
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Poor Economics
A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty
Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Gifts of Athena
Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
Joel Mokyr
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Nudge
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler
Cass R. Sunstein
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Perestroika
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Career and Family
Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity
Claudia Goldin
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Good Economics for Hard Times
Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Trump: The Art of the Deal
Tony Schwartz
Donald J. Trump
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Rise and Fall of the City of Edinburgh
Ray Perman
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Financial Cold War
A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets
James Fok
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II
Mauricio Drelichman
Hans-Joachim Voth
