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MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS O IBD

CLASSIC WISDOM REPRINT
07 / 2020
9781950330584
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Sinopsis

We find those whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit, that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it&rdquo,&hellip,Does this sound familiar? We had this fever in 1929, 1987, 2008, 2000, and NOW!The subjects of Mackay',s debunking includeáalchemy,ácrusades,áduels,áeconomic bubbles,áfortune-telling,áhaunted houses, theáDrummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes ofábeardsáandáhair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder throughápoisoning,áprophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, andárelics. Present-day writers on economics, such asáMichael LewisáandáAndrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.

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27,58