Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Rilegato

MacKay, Charles

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1773230093 ISBN 13: 9781773230092

Casa editrice: Dead Authors Society, 2016

Riassunto

EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS is a popular history of popular folly in human society by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 but most of which remains incredibly relevent to this day. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include economic bubbles, crusades & witch-hunts, fortune-telling, medical quackery in curing disease, haunted houses, popular follies of great cities, and the popular admiration of great criminals. This is a book of reason and common-sense which shows precisely how man's idiocy is destined to keep repeating itself, and it is a book which indeed even prohesied the financial crash of 1929 and the economic downturn of more recent years. In fact, important present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias and Michael Lewis, give it high praise.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Dead Authors Society
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1773230093
• ISBN 13: 9781773230092
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 378
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile