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"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay is an early study of crowd psychology first published in 1841. This journalistic work examines humanity's susceptibility to collective manias through three volumes exploring financial bubbles, religious crusades, witch trials, alchemy, and countless other follies. Mackay debunks popular delusions with colorful anecdotes and sensational storytelling, from Dutch tulip mania to the influence of politics on beard styles. His analysis
of economic bubbles remains influential, credited with helping financiers predict market crashes and understand modern speculation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Author
Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889
Title
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Note
Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds
Contents
The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.
Credits
Jonathan Ingram, Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level
Reading ease score: 64.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language<br>English
LoC Class
AZ: General Works: History of scholarship and learning, The humanities
Subject
Social psychology
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Swindlers and swindling
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Impostors and imposture
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Alchemy
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Delusions
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Occultism -- Early works to 1900
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Investments -- Psychological aspects
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Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects
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Hallucinations and illusions
Subject
Common fallacies
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eBook-No.<br>24518
Release Date<br>Feb 5, 2008
Last Update<br>Jun 26, 2021
Copyright<br>Public domain in the USA.
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