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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, by Charles Mackay, in 764 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. The download contains all three books of this valuable work, in two volumes (Philadelphia, 1850). Wikipedia has an entry on the book (Extraordinary Popular Delusions) and a group of related entries on topics such as crowd psychology, mass hysteria, and manias. Rather than being isolated cases, such phenomena appear to be properties of humans in groups, from time immemorial to the present. Compiled by Robert Bedrosian. From Wikipedia:"...The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles."

Chủ đề: History, Historical, Ancient, Classical, Medieval; Modern, Delusions, Hysteria, Crowds; Society; Societal; Social; Institutions, Manias, Frenzies; Behavior; Wildness; Madness; Stupidity; Irrationality, Alchemy, Crusades, Duels, Economy, Economics, Religion, Politics, Poisons, Poisoning, Prophecies,

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