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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Author: Charles MacKay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its targets in three parts: "National Delusions," "Peculiar Follies," and "Philosophical Delusions." Learn why intelligent people do amazingly stupid things when caught up in speculative edevorse. The subjects of Mack...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781604594416
ISBN-10: 1604594411
Publication Date: 8/1/2008
Pages: 440
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Publisher: Wilder Publications
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Any business professor worth his salt should have this book at tongue's tip. You will read of alchemists, crusaders, witches, haunted houses and tulips. How does the madness of the crowd effect our economical lives


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