Charles Mackay
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
1981
THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. Continuation of Mackay's classic.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
1932
More than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase 'irrational exuberance' to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of 'tulipomania', a speculative madness surrounding the value of tulips in the 18th century that was the ruin of many Dutch and English investors. This is only one of the 'extraordinary popular delusions' documented by Mackay in a fascinating study of group psychology. He also describes notorious witch hunts, ....[more]
The Book of English Songs : From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
2007
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitme....[more]
The Founders of the American Republic : A History and Biography
1918
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitme....[more]
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
1976
Classic survey of crowd psychology takes an illuminating, entertaining look at three historic swindles: "The Mississippi Scheme," "The South-Sea Bubble," and "Tulipomania." Fired by greed and fed by naiuml;veteacute;, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.
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