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EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS IBD

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01 / 2009
9781607960744
Inglês

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Being selections fromáMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.ááMackayâÇÖs work, first published in 1841, chronicles the various fallacies and delusions that have afflicted human thinking during the modern period.áThough the scope of the first edition was wide ranging--including alchemy, fortune-telling, haunted houses and other forms of philosophical delusion-the present editions reprints only those portions of the original work that pertain to economic bubbles.áPresent-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud MackayâÇÖs three chapters on the Tulipomania, the South Sea Bubble, and on the Mississippi Scheme.