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Delusions and the Madness of the Masses

Author : Lawrie Reznek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442206055
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Delusions and the Madness of the Masses written by Lawrie Reznek and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all think that we can tell the difference between someone who is mad, or whom psychiatrists call psychotic, and someone who is sane. But can we really tell who is mad and who is not? Do we really know what madness is and how it should be recognized? Have psychiatrists made a sensible distinction between the patient who believes that aliens are beaming messages to him from a foreign planet, and the religious fanatic who believes God communicates to him via automatic writing? Is there a difference between the paranoid patient who believes that the FBI is after him, and the sizeable proportion of our normal population that believe that the US government orchestrated the 9-11 bombings? Here, Reznek hopes to shed light on the delusions of the masses-those delusions that are common to everyday people living so-called ordinary lives. He provides an understanding of madness and the psychological processes that drive us to adopt delusions, arguing that it is a mistake to view only schizophrenic patients as delusional, while excluding large groups of society from such an analysis. If we abandon the idea that whole communities cannot share a delusion, we can come to a better understanding about why the world is such a dangerous place.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Complete Edition: Volume 1-3)

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Complete Edition: Volume 1-3) written by Charles Mackay and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, 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, magnetizers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Contents: Volume 1: National Delusions: The Mississippi Scheme The South Sea Bubble The Tulipomania Relics Modern Prophecies Popular Admiration for Great Thieves Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard Duels and Ordeals The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True Popular Follies in Great Cities Old Price Riots The Thugs, or Phansigars Volume 2: Peculiar Follies: The Crusades The Witch Mania The Slow Poisoners Haunted Houses Volume 3: Philosophical Delusions : The Alchemysts Fortune Telling The Magnetisers

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Essential Library
ISBN 13 : 0738843083
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by Essential Library. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’ve ever wondered where popular catch phrases and slang comes from or why men’s beards go in and out of fashion, then this book is for you. How often do you come across a book that can explain most everything? Much of today’s news has a basis in prior historical events. The internet IPO market shares striking similarities to the Dutch “tulip mania” of the 1600’s. The conflict in the Middle East can trace its roots to the Crusades. The recent satanic child abuse trials are reminiscent of the European witch trials of the 1400s-1600s. This complete two-volume edition demonstrates that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. Volume I contains the following: The Mississippi Scheme The South Sea Bubble The Tulipomania The Alchymists Modern Prophecies Fortune Telling The Magnetisers Here are astonishing and entertaining tales of thievery, greed and madness. This informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions from haunted houses and the prophecies of Nostradamus to speculative excess. Charles MacKay explains it all in this classic edition. Enjoy!

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition represents an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". MacKay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style. 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. Scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan mentioned the book in his own discussion about pseudoscience, popular delusions, and hoaxes. Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781718660953
Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple; and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity. At an early age in the annals of Europe its population lost their wits about the sepulchre of Jesus, and crowded in frenzied multitudes to the Holy Land; another age went mad for fear of the devil, and offered up hundreds of thousands of victims to the delusion of witchcraft.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author : Charles MacKay
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721742493
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles MacKay and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds author: Charles MacKay Popular delusions began so early, spread so widely, and have lasted so long, that instead of two or three volumes, fifty would scarcely suffice to detail their history. The present may be considered more of a miscellany of delusions than a history--a chapter only in the great and awful book of human folly which yet remains to be written, and which Porson once jestingly said he would write in five hundred volumes! Interspersed are sketches of some lighter matters, --amusing instances of the imitativeness and wrongheadedness of the people, rather than examples of folly and delusion.Religious matters have been purposely excluded as incompatible with the limits prescribed to the present work; a mere list of them would alone be sufficient to occupy a volume. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, 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, magnetizers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Contents: Volume 1: National Delusions: The Mississippi Scheme The South Sea Bubble The Tulipomania Relics Modern Prophecies Popular Admiration for Great Thieves Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard Duels and Ordeals The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True Popular Follies in Great Cities Old Price Riots The Thugs, or Phansigars Volume 2: Peculiar Follies: The Crusades The Witch Mania The Slow Poisoners Haunted Houses Volume 3: Philosophical Delusions : The Alchemysts Fortune Telling The Magnetisers

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness

Author : Charles MacKay
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544670102
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness written by Charles MacKay and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". MacKay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style. 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.Scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan mentioned the book in his own discussion about pseudoscience, popular delusions, and hoaxes. In later editions, Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another "popular delusion" which was at least as important as the South Sea Bubble. Mathematician Andrew Odlyzko has pointed out, in a published lecture, that Mackay himself played a role in this economic bubble; as leader writer in the Glasgow Argus, Mackay wrote on 2 October 1845: "There is no reason whatever to fear a crash". Author bio: Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 - 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

The Crowd & Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author : Gustave Lebon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789562912259
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Crowd & Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Gustave Lebon and published by . This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Charles Mackay discusses the irrational behaviors of crowds in the economy, war and magic. He gives several different examples of market bubbles, such as the Mississippi Scheme and the infamous Tulip Mania in the Netherlands. Ever since it was written, investors have used it as a guide to help identify boom and bust cycles. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds has had an important influence on economists in understanding of crowd psychology and feedback loops.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author : Charles Mackay
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Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890151409
Total Pages : 724 pages
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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work studies the psychology of crowds and mass mania throughout history, including accounts of classic scams, grand-scale madness and deceptions. Some of these include the Mississippi scheme that swept France in 1720 and the South Sea Bubble that ruined thousands in England at the same time.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Author : Charles Mackay
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ISBN 13 : 3752411759
Total Pages : 738 pages
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110802761X
Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions written by Charles Mackay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wittily told collection of trends, fallacies and scams through the ages, from economic bubbles to a fashion for poisoning.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds .

Author : LL D. Charles MacKay
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781795484749
Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds . written by LL D. Charles MacKay and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. The book was published in three volumes: "National Delusions," "Peculiar Follies," and "Philosophical Delusions." MacKay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style.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.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Author : Charles Mackay
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ISBN 13 : 9781545538753
Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions written by Charles Mackay and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusionsand the Madness of CrowdsCharles MackayExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841.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. Scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan mentioned the book in his own discussion about pseudoscience, popular delusions, and hoaxes.In later editions, Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another "popular delusion" which was at least as important as the South Sea Bubble. Mathematician Andrew Odlyzko has pointed out, in a published lecture, that Mackay himself played a role in this economic bubble; as leader writer in the Glasgow Argus, Mackay wrote on 2 October 1845: "There is no reason whatever to fear a crash".

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539849582
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds written by Charles Mackay and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles MacKay's groundbreaking examination of a staggering variety of popular delusions, crazes and mass follies is presented here in full with no abridgements. The text concentrates on a wide variety of phenomena which had occurred over the centuries prior to this book's publication in 1841. Mackay begins by examining various economic bubbles, such as the infamous Tulipomania - wherein Dutch tulips rocketed in value amid claims they could be substituted for actual currency - and various follies spread by word of mouth in urban areas. As we progress further, the scope of the book broadens into several more exotic fields of mass self-deception. Mackay turns his attention to the witch hunts of the 17th and 18th centuries, the practice of alchemy, the phenomena of haunted houses, the vast and varied practices of fortune telling and the search for the philosopher's stone, to name but a handful of subjects. Informed by personal research, and exhaustive in detail, it is with an evocative conviction that the author excoriates mankind's numerous delusions. Further examples of topics in this lengthy book include various claims concerning old relics and artefacts, often involving such items being said to possess religious significance. Mackay saves particular scorn for popular romanticism surrounding the lives of certain criminal scoundrels, whereby said wrongdoers are thought virtuous in popular society; he also notes the marked emergence of quack medicine concurrent with meaningful advances in medical science. The acceptance into society of these phenomena is considered but another facet of the human crowd's inherent madness, feeding into the central thesis of this book. Charles Mackay was a journalist used to writing for a popular audience; as such, his book is highly readable and accessible even today. Despite his dogged research and dislike of various delusions, Mackay was not himself immune to participating in them himself; he was involved in the 1840s Railway Mania, and supplemented his interest with newspaper columns in which he assured readers that there was no danger of the railway market crashing. Today, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds is distinguished as an expansive, well-researched and somewhat eccentric work of social history.

The Delusions of Crowds

Author : William L Bernstein
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1611858879
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Delusions of Crowds written by William L Bernstein and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Charles Mackay's 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, William Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last 500 years - from the Anabaptist Madness that afflicted the Low Countries in the 1530s to the dangerous end-times beliefs that animate ISIS and pervade today's polarised nations; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles of recent years. Through Bernstein's supple prose, the participants are as colourful as their motivation, invariably 'the desire to improve one's well-being in this life or the next.' As revealing about human nature as they are historically significant, Bernstein's chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania as he observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of mass delusion, we can recognise it more readily in our own time and avoid its frequently dire impact.