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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

By Charles Mackay, David J. Schneider (Introduction)
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By Charles Mackay, David J. Schneider (Introduction)
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a landmark study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. Chronicled here are accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions that have sprung from ideas, beliefs, and causes that still have champions today: the prophecies of Nostradamus, the coming of comets and Judgment Day, the Rosicrucians, and astrology. The book also ...

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