Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Author : Charles Mackay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William J. Bernstein
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802157114
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Delusions of Crowds written by William J. Bernstein and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles Mackay
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ISBN 13 : 9781684220748
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions written by Charles Mackay and published by London : R. Bentley. This book was released on 1841 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Phillips
Publisher : Infinite Ideas Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781905940912
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Charles Mackay
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ISBN 13 : 9781088138489
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the full unabridged edition that includes all three volumes. In this book, Charles Mackay discusses the irrational behaviors of crowds in the economy, war and magic. He gives several different examples of market bubbles such as the Mississippi Scheme and the infamous Tulip Mania in the Netherlands. Ever since it was written, Investors have used it as a guide to help identify boom and bust cycles. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds has had an important influence on economists in understanding of crowd psychology and feedback loops.

Author : Charles Mackay
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ISBN 13 : 0857197428
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman Definitive Edition) written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Liberty in America: Or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada in 1857-8 written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles MacKay
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544664248
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles MacKay and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". MacKay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include 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, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.Scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan mentioned the book in his own discussion about pseudoscience, popular delusions, and hoaxes. In later editions, Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another "popular delusion" which was at least as important as the South Sea Bubble. Mathematician Andrew Odlyzko has pointed out, in a published lecture, that Mackay himself played a role in this economic bubble; as leader writer in the Glasgow Argus, Mackay wrote on 2 October 1845: "There is no reason whatever to fear a crash". Author bio: Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 - 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

Author : Sir Anthony Weldon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
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