Description: This vintage hardcover book titled "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay is a fascinating nonfiction read for adults. The book, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, spans 724 pages and covers a variety of topics such as hoaxes and deceptions, social psychology, and the occult. The author's engaging narrative style delves into some of the most intriguing and curious wonders of human nature. This book is a great addition to any collection and is perfect for those interested in true crime, psychology, and body, mind & spirit.Copyright 1932, Vol 1, HardcoverExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 under the title Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. The book was published in three volumes: "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.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. In the 21st century, the mathematician Andrew Odlyzko pointed out, in a published lecture, that Mackay himself played a role in this economic bubble; as a leader writer in The Glasgow Argus, Mackay wrote on 2 October 1845: "There is no reason whatever to fear a crash"5B
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Book Title: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Intended Audience: Adults
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Charles Mackay
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Features: Illustrations
Genre: True Crime, Psychology, Body, Mind & Spirit, Référence
Topic: Hoaxes & Deceptions, General, Social Psychology, Curiosities & Wonders, Occultism
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 724 Pages
