Library of Mistakes
Hosted by Leila Johnston and Russell Napier and Fraser Allen and Robbie Mochrie · Library of Mistakes
4.9from 103 ratings
- 68
- Episodes
- 44
- Transcribed
- 103
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About 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.
- Publisher
- Library of Mistakes
- Category
- business · business · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Jan 2022
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
44 of 68 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP 68: A Fabulous Debt (with Robin Wigglesworth)
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP 67 The Weekend of AI – part one (with Chris Stokel-Walker and Ellie Howard) Shelf Life#19
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP 66 Meet our new Librarian! (with Emily Holmes) Shelf Life #18
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EP 68: A Fabulous Debt (with Robin Wigglesworth)
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And what they found was that that just was insufficient. So they divided the city into six provinces, essentially, and assessed everybody's wealth and imposed a forcible war tax. But because Venice was a republic, they couldn't just do this at the point of a sword. They had to get some sort of acceptance from the populace to do it. um so they they made it tradable and they softened the blow by saying well we won't pay one percent or zero we will we'll borrow from you at five percent a year and then suddenly you had a fixed income instrument that paid five percent a year that you could trade and you could go down down to the the rialto market in in venice it's still there it's name checked by shakespeare later on but it's still there it's fresh food market today but that was the first bond market in the world and you can buy and sell these receipts and uh If you wanted to raise cash in a hurry, you could sell your receipts. […]
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- Robin Wigglesworth
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- Ellie Howard
- Emily Holmes
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- 4.8 / 5
- 41 ratings
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- 4.9 / 5
- 62 ratings
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