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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
2008
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its targets in three parts: ""National Delusions, "" ""Peculiar Follies, "" and ""Philosophical Delusions."" Learn why intelligent people do amazingly stupid things when caught up in speculative edevorse. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades, and duels. Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.
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Keywords
- Alchemy
- AZ
- Common fallacies
- Delusions
- GITenberg
- Hallucinations and illusions
- Impostors and imposture
- Investments -- Psychological aspects
- Occultism -- Early works to 1900
- Social psychology
- Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects
- Swindlers and swindling
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