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"This informative, funny collection of popular delusions, from Alchemy to Mesmerism, has become a classic--a study of mass manias, crowd behavior, and human folly. The book encompasses a broad range of scams, manias, and deceptions including witch burnings and the Great Crusades. Here are the human quirks that created the Mississippi Bubble and Tulipomania--when speculators lost fortunes on a single tulip bulb. Here are the follies and fads that dictated fashion through the ages. Here is a book that affords fascinating and entertaining insight into how sensible, intelligent people may be transformed into mayhem-making mobs."--Adapted from back cover
Acquisto del libro
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay, Andrew P. Tobias
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1980
Metodi di pagamento
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Charles Mackay, Andrew P. Tobias
- Editore
- Harmony Books (NY)
- Pubblicato
- 1980
- Pagine
- 724
- ISBN10
- 0517541238
- ISBN13
- 9780517541234
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Libri di testo, Storia, Commercio, Business & Management, Temi psicologici, Psicologia, Economia, Sociologia, Finanza
- Valutazione
- 3,85 su 5
- Descrizione
- "This informative, funny collection of popular delusions, from Alchemy to Mesmerism, has become a classic--a study of mass manias, crowd behavior, and human folly. The book encompasses a broad range of scams, manias, and deceptions including witch burnings and the Great Crusades. Here are the human quirks that created the Mississippi Bubble and Tulipomania--when speculators lost fortunes on a single tulip bulb. Here are the follies and fads that dictated fashion through the ages. Here is a book that affords fascinating and entertaining insight into how sensible, intelligent people may be transformed into mayhem-making mobs."--Adapted from back cover