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Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds (Great Minds Series)

by Charles Mackay

ISBN13: 9781573928915
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More than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase "irrational exuberance" to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of "tulipomania," a speculative madness surrounding the value of tulips in the 18th century that was the ruin of many Dutch and English investors. This is only one of the "extraordinary popular delusions" documented by Mackay in a fascinating study of group psychology. He also describes notorious witch hunts, haunted houses, the Crusades, beliefs in fortunetellers and in the magical power of alchemy, veneration of relics, bogus health cures and health scares, and many other examples of human credulity and flights from reason. This work is a true classic in the study of paranormal beliefs, a funny, shocking, and unbelievable yet true history of human gullibility.

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ISBN:: 9781573928915
Author:: MacKay, Charles
Publisher:: Prometheus Books
Author:: MacKay, Charles
Location:: Amherst, N.Y.
Subject:: Investments
Subject:: Social Psychology
Subject:: Sociology - Social Theory
Subject:: Popular Culture
Subject:: Social history
Subject:: Stock exchanges
Subject:: Economics - Theory
Subject:: Marketing - Multilevel
Subject:: Impostors and imposture
Subject:: Occultism
Subject:: Swindlers and swindling
Subject:: Delusions
Subject:: Popular Culture - General
Subject:: Sociology - General
Subject:: General science
Edition Description:: Trade paper
Series:: Great Minds Series
Series Volume:: no. PR03
Publication Date:: 20010531
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 724
Dimensions:: 8.39x5.43x1.58 in. 1.86 lbs.

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