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"This informative, funny collection of popular delusions, from Alchemy to Mesmerism, has become a classic--a study of mass manias, crowd behavior, and human folly. The book encompasses a broad range of scams, manias, and deceptions including witch burnings and the Great Crusades. Here are the human quirks that created the Mississippi Bubble and Tulipomania--when speculators lost fortunes on a single tulip bulb. Here are the follies and fads that dictated fashion through the ages. Here is a book that affords fascinating and entertaining insight into how sensible, intelligent people may be transformed into mayhem-making mobs."--Adapted from back cover
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay, Andrew P. Tobias
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1980,
- Estado del libro
- Dañado
- Precio
- 7,68 €
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Charles Mackay, Andrew P. Tobias
- Editorial
- Harmony Books (NY)
- Publicado en
- 1980
- Páginas
- 724
- ISBN10
- 0517541238
- ISBN13
- 9780517541234
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Historia, Comercio, Negocios & Gestión, Temas psicológicos, Psicología, Economía, Sociología, Finanzas
- Calificación
- 3,85 de 5
- Descripción
- "This informative, funny collection of popular delusions, from Alchemy to Mesmerism, has become a classic--a study of mass manias, crowd behavior, and human folly. The book encompasses a broad range of scams, manias, and deceptions including witch burnings and the Great Crusades. Here are the human quirks that created the Mississippi Bubble and Tulipomania--when speculators lost fortunes on a single tulip bulb. Here are the follies and fads that dictated fashion through the ages. Here is a book that affords fascinating and entertaining insight into how sensible, intelligent people may be transformed into mayhem-making mobs."--Adapted from back cover