About this title: 'Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation,' said author Charles Mackay in 1841. It was true then, and it is certainly true now. This intelligent, humorous collection of popular delusions, from money mania to religious relics, has become a classic study of mass manias, crowd behaviour, and human folly. The book encompasses a broad range of scams, and deceptions, including witch burnings, the Great Crusades, the prophecies of Nostradamus, and tulipomania ...
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Description: Fine. Almost in new condition. Book shows only very slight signs of use. Cover and binding are undamaged and pages show minimal use. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
Publisher: Bonanza Books, NY
Date Published: (c. 1841, 1980) 1981
Description: VG. Very minor wear on the clean and sound binding. Contents are lightly age-yellowed, more so in the outer margins, otherwise contents are clean and unmarked except for name embossed on title page & p. 100. No dust jacket.; Light gray boards, reddish-brown lettering. Frontispiece portrait. Facsimile title pages and reproductions of original illustations from the editions of 1841 and 1852. Foreword by Andrew Tobias. CROWD PSYCHOLOGY. The astonishing circumstances of the greater popular elusions ... read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: L. C. Page & Company, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good + No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Seventh impression of this hard cover edition. Ownership information on the front pastedown. No other writing. Bound in red with gilt lettering on the front and spine. Spine is bumped at the top half. read more
Description: Very Good. 1897597320 Nice **BOOK CLUB HARDCOVER**--smaller book than described because it is a book club. Different cover but same content exactly---Dust Jacket has minor Shelf wear/rubbing. No tears, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Clean and Neat. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781573928915ISBN:1573928917
Description: Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. In very good, clean, unmarked condition. Spine uncreased. Cover hsows light wear and two light creases. Text crisp and appears unread. Details popular delusions as documented by Charles Mackay, and the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals in a group. read more
"This book was cited in the Wisdom of Crowds, as an illustration of when the group is most definitely not smart, but can whip itself into an irrational frenzy, as individuals no longer make decisions independently, but are goaded into folly by those around them. The Madness of Crowds covers three bubbles - (i) the Mississippi scheme in France in 1716; (ii) the South Sea bubble, which occurred in England almost at the same time as the Mississippi scheme; and (iii) the tulip craze in the Netherlands in the 1630s. Mackay's book, first published in 1841, has aged gracefully for an economics text. A quick and easy read."
"A surprisingly readable and interesting book - written in 1841, reads very well. I had no time to finish it before it had to go back to the library, but I'm ordering a copy from amazon. This is a book one wants to have around."
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds was first published in 1841 and chronicles a number of irrational ideas that took hold of the public imagination including: stock market bubbles, the tulip-mania that overtook Holland, alchemists, the crusades, witch mania, prophecies/fortune tellers, hair styles, popular sayings, haunted houses, relics and dueling.
Almost 170 years later we have stock market bubbles, beanie baby mania, homeopaths, the war in Iraq, psychics, haunted houses, and religion. I think we all deserve a big pat on the back for the enlightened progress our highly educated and thoughtful civilization has undergone in the intervening years."
"Written in the 1840's this book is facinating, whitty, and of interest to people not involved in psych. It is almost creepy how the business crazes mirror things happening today."
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