Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds
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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57392-891-5
- EAN: 9781573928915
- Produktnummer: 21108465
- Verlag: Prometheus Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 724 S.
- Masse: H21.3 cm x B13.8 cm x D4.0 cm 844 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 844
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Charles Mackay (1814-1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist and songwriter. After his education in Brussels, Mackay became a writer for The Sun, an assistant sub-editor for the Morning Chronicle, and a correspondent for The Times during the American Civil War. Mackay's most notable books are Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Life and Liberty in America, and Lost Beauties of the English Language.
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