Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1" by Charles Mackay is a study of crowd psychology first published in 1841. This journalistic exploration examines how entire societies fall prey to irrational beliefs and financial manias. Mackay investigates economic bubbles like the South Sea Company and Dutch tulip mania, alongside witch trials, alchemy, the Crusades, and countless other collective obsessions. Through colorful anecdotes and debunking analysis, he reveals how crowds abandon reason
and embrace delusion, offering timeless lessons about human behavior that continue influencing financial thinkers today. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 |
|---|---|
| Title | Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds |
| Credits | Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | AZ: General Works: History of scholarship and learning, The humanities |
| Subject | Social psychology |
| Subject | Swindlers and swindling |
| Subject | Impostors and imposture |
| Subject | Alchemy |
| Subject | Delusions |
| Subject | Occultism -- Early works to 1900 |
| Subject | Investments -- Psychological aspects |
| Subject | Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects |
| Subject | Hallucinations and illusions |
| Subject | Common fallacies |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 636 |
| Release Date | Aug 1, 1996 |
| Most Recently Updated | Feb 5, 2013 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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