Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Author: Charles Mackay
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 660
Release: 1852
Genre: History
ISBN: BCUL:1094403614

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay, first published in 1852, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds All Volumes Complete and Unabridged

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds  All Volumes  Complete and Unabridged
Author: Charles Mackay
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1387890409

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Charles MacKay's groundbreaking examination of a staggering variety of popular delusions, crazes and mass follies is presented here in full with no abridgements. The text concentrates on a wide variety of phenomena which had occurred over the centuries prior to this book's publication in 1841. Mackay begins by examining economic bubbles, such as the infamous Tulipomania, wherein Dutch tulips rocketed in value amid claims they could be substituted for actual currency. As we progress further, the scope of the book broadens into several more exotic fields of mass self-deception. Mackay turns his attention to the witch hunts of the 17th and 18th centuries, the practice of alchemy, the phenomena of haunted houses, the vast and varied practices of fortune telling and the search for the philosopher's stone, to name but a handful of subjects. Today, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds is distinguished as an expansive, well-researched and somewhat eccentric work of social history.

The Delusions of Crowds

The Delusions of Crowds
Author: William J. Bernstein
Publsiher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780802157119

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This “disturbing yet fascinating” exploration of mass mania through the ages explains the biological and psychological roots of irrationality (Kirkus Reviews). From time immemorial, contagious narratives have spread through susceptible groups—with enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay’s nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, neurologist and author William Bernstein examines mass delusion through the lens of current scientific research in The Delusions of Crowds. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last five hundred years—from the Anabaptist Madness of the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that pervade today’s polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles. Through Bernstein’s supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their “desire to improve one’s well-being in this life or the next.” Bernstein’s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania. He observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of this all-too-human phenomenon, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its frequently dire impact.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Author: Charles Mackay
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1684220742

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2017 Reprint of 1852 Edition. Being selections from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Mackay's work, first published in 1841, chronicles the various fallacies and delusions that have afflicted human thinking during the modern period. Though the scope of the first edition was wide ranging--including alchemy, fortune-telling, haunted houses and other forms of philosophical delusion--the present editions reprints only those portions of the original work that pertain to economic bubbles. Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud Mackay's three chapters on the Tulipomania, the South Sea Bubble, and on the Mississippi Scheme.

Charles Mackay s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Author: Tim Phillips
Publsiher: Infinite Ideas
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2009-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781907755903

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Tim Phillips’ thoroughly up-to-date interpretation of Charles Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, a classic of popular psychology, illustrates the principles of Mackay’s analysis of financial bubbles with modern examples to enable 21st century readers to understand crowd psychology and invest wisely.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Author: Charles Mackay
Publsiher: London : R. Bentley
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1841
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: HARVARD:HWL3GA

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Complete Edition Volume 1 3

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds  Complete Edition  Volume 1 3
Author: Charles Mackay
Publsiher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2023-11-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: EAN:8596547718369

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetizers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Contents: Volume 1: National Delusions: The Mississippi Scheme The South Sea Bubble The Tulipomania Relics Modern Prophecies Popular Admiration for Great Thieves Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard Duels and Ordeals The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True Popular Follies in Great Cities Old Price Riots The Thugs, or Phansigars Volume 2: Peculiar Follies: The Crusades The Witch Mania The Slow Poisoners Haunted Houses Volume 3: Philosophical Delusions : The Alchemysts Fortune Telling The Magnetisers

Life and Liberty in America Or Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada in 1857 8

Life and Liberty in America  Or  Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada in 1857 8
Author: Charles Mackay
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1859
Genre: Canada
ISBN: HARVARD:32044010550069

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