Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Hardcover/Charles MacKay

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its targets in three parts: ``National Delusions,`` ``Peculiar Follies,`` and ``Philosophical Delusions.`` Learn why intelligent people do amazingly stupid things when caught up in speculative edevorse. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.