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portada Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
742
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x4.1 cm
Weight
1.07 kg.
ISBN13
9789899880795
Edited in
Portugal
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles MacKay (Author) · Iaegca - Portuguese Institute of Higher Studi · Paperback

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - MacKay, Charles

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Synopsis "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds "

This book has been professionally retyped and reformatted to fit modern day standards by officials of the Portuguese Institute of Higher Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences. *** Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". Despite its journalistic and rather sensational style, the book has gathered a body of academic support as a work of considerable importance in the history of social psychology and psychopathology.The subjects of Mackay's debunking include economic bubbles, alchemy, crusades, witch-hunts, prophecies, fortune-telling, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), shape of hair and beard (influence of politics and religion on), murder through poisoning, haunted houses, popular follies of great cities, popular admiration of great thieves, duels, and relics. Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias and Michael Lewis, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. Scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan mentioned the book in his own discussion about pseudoscience, popular delusions, and hoaxes.

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