TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackay,Charles
TI  - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
AV  - AZ 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Swindlers and swindling
KW  - Impostors and imposture
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - Delusions
KW  - Occultism -- Early works to 1900
KW  - Investments -- Psychological aspects
KW  - Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects
KW  - Hallucinations and illusions
KW  - Common fallacies
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds; Release date is 1996-08-01; Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1" by Charles Mackay is a study of crowd psychology first published in 1841. This journalistic exploration examines how entire societies fall prey to irrational beliefs and financial manias. Mackay investigates economic bubbles like the South Sea Company and Dutch tulip mania, alongside witch trials, alchemy, the Crusades, and countless other collective obsessions. Through colorful anecdotes and debunking analysis, he reveals how crowds abandon reason and embrace delusion, offering timeless lessons about human behavior that continue influencing financial thinkers today. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/636
ER  -