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Changing the world?
Dr Helen S Williams
ORIGINS
Library founded by
Russell Napier
Unused property was
identified and fitted out
By 2013 the premises
were ready
Books were ordered and
donated
Wemyss Place Mews
December 2013
Large donation
of books
100s of books
ordered
No librarian
What kind of mistakes?
 ‘Decision-making under conditions of
uncertainty’
 Business
 Financial
 Predictions
 Economic, social & political context
Collections
 Accounting & auditing
 Biography
 Business cycles
 Business history
 Corporate governance &
management
 Corporate history
 Economic theory &
analysis
 Fiction & games
 Financial institutions
 Financial markets
 Fraud
 History
 Investment
 Reference & statistics
 Reports
 Risk & decision-making
Darien Scheme
Barings Bank
Enron
Stewart Hamilton archive
 Teaching materials
 Accounting and legal
background to case
studies
 Materials related to
the collapse of Enron
 Unsorted material
Collaborations
 Free
 Membership
 available to
 everyone
 Sign up via website
 Information about events and lectures
 Can be hired out for meetings
Before you leave
 @EdinburghLoM
www.libraryofmistakes.com
www.librarycat.org/lib/Libraryof
Mistakes
www.librarything.com/catalog/Li
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