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Episodes: 65
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Unknown
Location: USA
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Russell Napier - Professor Russell Napier is the Library's Keeper and a finance expert who leads conversations with financial-history authors and other specialists.
Fraser Allen - Fraser Allen is a presenter of the Shelf Life strand and the series producer.
Leila Johnston - Leila Johnston presents the Shelf Life strand, which extends the series into related historical and cultural subjects.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Tom Paper - Historical Mapmaking Errors, Cartography, Geography, And The Cultural Meaning Of Mistakes.
Sandy Nairn - Technology-driven Market Change And Whether Artificial-intelligence Valuations May Be Justified.
Andrew Milligan - Historical Market Valuations And Whether Current Artificial-intelligence Valuations Are Excessive.
Anja Shortland - The Business Practices Of International Ransomware Criminals And Financial Crime.
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Episodes
EP 65: What Does Shareholder Wealth Creation Tell Investors? (with Sandy Nairn & Michael O'Connell)
August 17, 2026
Many of our listeners are interested in what financial history can tell us about the returns of financial assets – and particularly of equities. We are therefore delighted as Sandy Nairn and Michael O’Connell join Russell Napier to discuss their new paper for the University of Strathclyde – ‘What Does Shareholder Wealth Creation Tell Investors?’.Michael is an Accountancy and Finance Researcher at the University of Strathclyde. Sandy is Executive Director of Global Opportunities Trust plc, and...
EP 64: The Unanchored Central Banker (with Manoj Pradhan and Charles Goodhart)
July 31, 2026
Manoj and Charles join Russell Napier to discuss their view that "real interest rates will rise because increasingly ageing societies will create a persistent and still-underappreciated deterioration in the government’s fiscal position". Can AI offset these demographic headwinds? The pair aren't convinced – suggesting that the glory days of central banks may be behind us. Lauded by Russell for once again "annoying the right people in the right places", he describes the book as "a quick read t...
EP 63: Mistakes On Maps (with Tom Paper) Shelf Life #17
July 24, 2026
As the Library of Mistakes prepares to host its first Edinburgh Fringe performance, we speak to the show's creator, Tom Paper. Mistakes On Maps is a witty, visually immersive journey through 20 historical maps, each featuring a fascinating flaw. Encounter sea monsters in the 1539 Carta Marina, the phantom continent of Terra Australis, California drawn as an island, the Open Polar Sea, canals on Mars, and the Mountains of Kong. Were these errors accidents, ambition, propaganda or fear of empty...
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