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BL
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1020518
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b774888
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| Uniform Title
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Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions
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| Main Entry
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Mackay, Charles,1814-1889.
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| Title & Author
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Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds /\ Charles Mackay.
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| Publication Statement
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Petersfield, Hampshire :: Harriman House,, 2003.
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xi, 114 pages :: illustrations ;; 20 cm
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| ISBN
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1897597320
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: 9781897597323
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| Notes
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"Harriman House Classics"--Dust cover.
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Originally published: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions. London : Richard Bentley, 1841.
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| Contents
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The Mississippi scheme -- The South-Sea bubble -- The Tulipomania.
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| Abstract
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First published in 1841, this book is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. This edition includes Charles Mackay's account of the three infamous financial manias--John Law's Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania. Between the three of them, these historic episodes confirm that greed and fear have always been the driving forces of financial markets, and, furthermore, that being sensible and clever is no defense against the mesmeric allure of a popular craze with the wind behind it. In writing the history of the great financial manias, Charles Mackay proved himself a master chronicler of social as well as financial history. Blessed with a cast of characters that covered all the vices, gifted a passage of events which was inevitably heading for disaster, and with the benefit of hindsight, he produced a record that is at once a riveting thriller and absorbing historical document.--From publisher description.
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Common fallacies.
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Delusions.
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Impostors and imposture.
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Investments-- Psychological aspects.
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Occultism, Early works to 1900.
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Social psychology.
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Stock exchanges-- Psychological aspects.
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Swindlers and swindling.
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Common fallacies.
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Delusions.
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Impostors and imposture.
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Investments-- Psychological aspects.
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Occultism.
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Social psychology.
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Stock exchanges-- Psychological aspects.
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Swindlers and swindling.
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| Dewey Classification
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001.9
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| LC Classification
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AZ999.M2 2003b
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