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EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS IBD

MARTINO FINE BOOKS
02 / 2017
9781684220748
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Sinopsis

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

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