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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions the Madness of Crowds
Author: Charles Mackay
Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies -- only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780517884331
ISBN-10: 051788433X
Publication Date: 7/25/1995
Pages: 768
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Any business professor worth his salt should have this book at tongue's tip. You will read of alchemists, crusaders, witches, haunted houses and tulips. How does the madness of the crowd effect our economical lives


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