Extraordinary Popular Delusions | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781573928915 | Extraordinary Popular Delusions | And the Madness of Crowds | Mackay

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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, haunted houses, the Crusades, beliefs in fortunetellers and in the magical power of alchemy, veneration of relics, bogus health cures and health scares, and many other examples of human credulity and flights from reason. This work is a true classic in the study of paranormal beliefs, a funny, shocking, and unbelievable yet true history of human gullibility.

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By Charles Mackay

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2001
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781573928915
ISBN-10:	1573928917
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mackay, Charles
Hersteller:	Prometheus
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 45 mm
Von/Mit:	Charles Mackay
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.2001
Gewicht:	1,064 kg