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- Library of Mistakes
- About My Library
Edinburgh’s Library of Mistakes is a hub of research, intellectual curiosity and conviviality set in the city's historic New Town. Access is free to members who sign up through the website.
In recent years financial education has focused on the power of the equation to explain economic and financial forces. This distillation of complex forces into faux objectivity has created dangerous errors in financial understanding. That objectivity has only been attained with the use of assumptions which do not hold in the real world. The Library of Mistakes exists to allow students, professionals and members of the general public to study financial history to understand how finance has worked rather than how it should work if key unrealistic assumptions are made.
As part of the Didasko Education Charity (registered charity SC040205) we help support financial education from the earliest interest through to some of the world’s most cutting edge research, including running a course on Advanced Valuation in Financial Markets. Our partner Future Asset helps encourage young women to work in financial services, while we support the work of the Market Mind Hypothesis, a multidisciplinary project to improve markets and ultimately benefit society.
By studying financial history we hope to improve financial understanding one mistake at a time.- Location
- Melville Street Lane, Edinburgh, UK
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