TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackay,Charles
TI  - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
AV  - AZ 
PY  - 2008///
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 2008-02-05; The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics; Jonathan Ingram, Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay is an early study of crowd psychology first published in 1841. This journalistic work examines humanity's susceptibility to collective manias through three volumes exploring financial bubbles, religious crusades, witch trials, alchemy, and countless other follies. Mackay debunks popular delusions with colorful anecdotes and sensational storytelling, from Dutch tulip mania to the influence of politics on beard styles. His analysis of economic bubbles remains influential, credited with helping financiers predict market crashes and understand modern speculation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
ER  -