Author: Charles MacKay
Publisher: Harriman House
Keywords: crowds, madness, delusions, popular, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-12
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1897597320
ISBN-13: 9781897597323

First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay’s account of the three infamous financial manias - John Law s Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania. Between the three of them, these historic episodes confirm that greed and fear have always been the driving forces of financial markets, and, furthermore, that being sensible and clever is no defence against the mesmeric allure of a popular craze with the wind behin

Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: madness, crowds, delusions, popular, extraordinary, memoirs
Number of Pages: 732
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 160520546X
ISBN-13: 9781605205465

In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit... -from the Preface The satanic child-abuse mania of the 1980s. The dotcom craze of the 1990s. The housing bubble of the 2000s. It may seem like we today invented mass insanity, but it’s always been with us, as this classic expose of the madness of humanity demonstrates in a way that’s both

Author: Charles MacKay
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Keywords: crowds, madness, delusions, popular, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2009-03-26
List price: $7.49
ISBN-10: 1604594411
ISBN-13: 9781604594416

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.

Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: value, editions, dover, delusions, popular, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2003-08-27
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0486432238
ISBN-13: 9780486432236

Classic survey of crowd psychology takes an illuminating, entertaining look at three historic swindles: "The Mississippi Scheme," "The South-Sea Bubble," and "Tulipomania." Fired by greed and fed by naïveté, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.

Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: three, volume, delusions, popular, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1419118978
ISBN-13: 9781419118975

For more than a thousand years the art of alchymy captivated many noble spirits, and was believed in by millions. Its origin is involved in obscurity. Some of its devotees have claimed for it an antiquity coeval with the creation of man himself; others, again, would trace it no further back than the time of Noah. Vincent de Beauvais argues, indeed, that all the antediluvians must have possessed a knowledge of alchymy; and particularly cites Noah as having been acquainted with the elixir vitae, or he could not have lived to so prodigious an age, and have begotten children when upwards of five h

Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: lyrics, ballads
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $42.99
ISBN-10: 0559379498
ISBN-13: 9780559379499

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Routledge, Warne & Routledge in 1859 in 518 pages; Subjects: History / General;

Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Keywords: library, amp, essential, reading, noble, barnes, popular, delusions, madness, crowds, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2004-08-12
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0760755825
ISBN-13: 9780760755822

A complete repackaging of the classic work about grand-scale madness, major schemes, and bamboozlement--and the universal human susceptibility to all three. This informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions, from witch burnings to the Great Crusades to the prophecies of Nostradamus.