Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Selections from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles MacKay
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“@mims There’s a really great book called “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” from the late 1800s that goes into a bunch of case studies. Tulip mania but also witch hunts. Human psychology remains the same, the speed and scale have changed. | Every few years there is occasion to get this book out | Excellent book.”
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Best Investing Books, Finance, and Psychology.
First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay's account of the three infamous financial manias John Law's Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania.Between the three of them,...
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“@mims There’s a really great book called “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” from the late 1800s that goes into a bunch of case studies. Tulip mania but also witch hunts. Human psychology remains the same, the speed and scale have changed. | Every few years there is occasion to get this book out | Excellent book.”
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