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"This informative, funny collection of popular delusions, from Alchemy to Mesmerism, has become a classic--a study of mass manias, crowd behavior, and human folly. The book encompasses a broad range of scams, manias, and deceptions including witch burnings and the Great Crusades. Here are the human quirks that created the Mississippi Bubble and Tulipomania--when speculators lost fortunes on a single tulip bulb. Here are the follies and fads that dictated fashion through the ages. Here is a book that affords fascinating and entertaining insight into how sensible, intelligent people may be transformed into mayhem-making mobs."--Adapted from back cover
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay, Andrew P. Tobias
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- 1980,
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- Title
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Charles Mackay, Andrew P. Tobias
- Publisher
- Harmony Books (NY)
- Released
- 1980
- Pages
- 724
- ISBN10
- 0517541238
- ISBN13
- 9780517541234
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Business, Business & Management, Psychological Topics, Psychology, Economics, Sociology, Finance
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- "This informative, funny collection of popular delusions, from Alchemy to Mesmerism, has become a classic--a study of mass manias, crowd behavior, and human folly. The book encompasses a broad range of scams, manias, and deceptions including witch burnings and the Great Crusades. Here are the human quirks that created the Mississippi Bubble and Tulipomania--when speculators lost fortunes on a single tulip bulb. Here are the follies and fads that dictated fashion through the ages. Here is a book that affords fascinating and entertaining insight into how sensible, intelligent people may be transformed into mayhem-making mobs."--Adapted from back cover