From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay, first published in 1852, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries...
A fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries.
Tim Phillips’ thoroughly up-to-date interpretation of Charles Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, a classic of popular psychology, illustrates the principles of Mackay’s analysis of financial bubbles ...
In this book, Charles Mackay discusses the irrational behaviors of crowds in the economy, war and magic.
This book aims to understand the nature of delusions and how they are generated.
Traces the evolution of international trade, from ancient Mesopotamia to today's global marketplace, exploring the influence of commerce on agriculture, technology, politics, and civilization as a whole.
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In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, ...
The text concentrates on a wide variety of phenomena which had occurred over the centuries prior to this book's publication in 1841.
To Dorie Greenspan for the Gamache lemon cookies and your support as we both finished our books, and commiserated. Her new book, out in October, is called Baking with Dorie. To Chelsea and Marc, for the Zooms with family.