Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South Sea Bubble, Witch Mania, Alchemy, the Crusades, Fortune-telling, Haunted Houses, and even 'Tulipomania' are only some of the subjects covered in this book, which is given a contemporary perspective through Professor Norman Stone's lively new Introduction.
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Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first published in 1841--shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas.
In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South Sea Bubble, Witch Mania, Alchemy, the Crusades, Fortune-telling, Haunted Houses, and even 'Tulipomania' are only some of the subjects covered in this book, which is given a contemporary perspective through Professor Norman Stone's lively new Introduction.
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"Evian" is "naive" spelled backwards. I pay $0.88 per 1000 liters for water at my house tap. (And I love the taste!)($3.33/1000 gallons, in case you are not yet metrified.) Many pay a 1000 times this price for Evian. This just proves that naming, packaging and imaging are everything when selling to the "general public".
Given this, the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Maddness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay describes the major historical crowd delusions up to 1841 when the book was first published. The forward by Bernard Baruch, written in 1932, is alone worth the price of the book. MacKay does not analize crowd psychcology nor attempt to explain why these events occurred - so don't look here for predictions of the next stock market crash. The events are revealed from a purely historical perspective and in great detail. Overall the book is a fascinating journey into the mind of humanity.
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If you're into investing, sooner or later an investment columnist will mention Extraordinary Delusions as required reading. It's that and more...
Charles Mackay first details France's Mississippi Scheme & England's South Sea Bubble (from the early 1700's). Then he covers the famous Dutch "tulipomania" of the 1600's. These are all enjoyable reports of financial manias and their aftermaths (though the South Sea Bubble chapter dragged on a bit). But the financial reader will be surprised when she realizes she's still only 100 pages into a 700 page book! Mackay proceeds to cover:
Alchemy - 150 pages of exhaustive (& exhausting) detail of hobbyists & serious investors who were convinced they could turn base metals into gold, if only they could find the right ancient recipe & stoke their workshop cauldrons just a little bit hotter.
The Crusades - 100 pages that prove that modern Islamic fundamentalists did not invent the idea of a "holy war". I had no idea the Crusades came out of official harassment of Y1K religious pilgrims! Remember this: If your country is being inundated with religious pilgrims, just try to think of them as a tourist opportunity. You don't want to get them angry!
The Witch Mania - 100pp. This section was unexpectedly chilling. As I read about European witch trials of the 1400s-1600s, I kept thinking of our recent satanic child abuse trials. It's all been done before: The wild unprovable accusations, including eating dead babies; trusting unreliable witnesses specifically BECAUSE of the severity of the charges; False Memory Syndrome. At least the rack & Trial by Ordeal are no longer recognized as valid forensic techniques.
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I picked up this book on the advice of a friend, and have been rewarded for reading it, though it has not been a painless task. It is a pretty challenging read. However, MacKay weaves many interesting historical yarns about various popular investment schemes and how they drove people into delusionary behavior. Some of the stories are amazing, and certainly humorous (for example "patents" being granted for a perpetual motion machine). This book is worth your money, but you're probably not going to read it straight through. It's probably a better "bathroom read"; a few pages at a time over many months.
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Charles Mackay's highly recommended Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds was first published in 1841 and studies the psychology of crowds and mass mania throughout history. Mackay included accounts of classic scams, grand-scale madness, and deceptions. Some of these include the Mississippi scheme that swept France in 1720, the South Sea bubble that ruined thousands in England at the same time, and the tulip mania of Holland when fortunes were made and lost on single tulip bulbs. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions that often sprang from valid ideas and causes -- many of which still have their followers today: alchemy and the philosopher's stone, the prophecies of Nostradamus, the coming of comets and judgment day, the Rosicrucians, and astrology. Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds is an important historical treatise that modern readers will find fascinating, engaging, and shrewd as they see how history repeats itself, but that disastrous pitfalls can be avoided by understanding the cycles and patterns of greed based ignorance plays in promoting and perpetuating group hysteria in the fields of business and finance, politics and superstitions.
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After hearing about this book for a long time, I recently read it. Mackay's book consists of one anecdote after another...for more than 700 pages. It offers very little in the way of analysis and explanations. If you like that kind of book, this one is for you.
I found this book boring and very overrated. I suggest that you skim a copy of this book before you buy it. After skimming it and getting a feel for what it contains, the chances are good you won't bother to buy it.
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Hier ist noch ein Buch, das angesichts der Krisen und Auswüchse unseres Finanzsystems sehr aktuell ist und das ich mit großen Vergnügen gelesen haben. Das Buch mit dem sperrigen und kaum merkbaren Titel Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: John Law's Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania erschien erstmals bereits 1841 und ist damit knapp 160 Jahre alt. Der Autor Charles Mackay bringt dabei aber noch ältere Beispiele für Spekulations- und Vertrauenskrisen (auch aber nicht nur rund um das Thema Geld) und die "Verrücktheiten der Masse". Gerade letzteres empfinde ich als interessante Gegenhypothese zur aktuellen Philosophie der "Weisheit der Vielen" und um das Web.
Ich freue mich, dass es das Buch jetzt auch in der Kindle-Version zu lesen gibt, denn es ist immer wieder ein paar Lesestunden wert. Der Autor hat die einzelnen Verrücktheiten der Massen sehr schön abgegrenzt in jeweils einzelne Kapitel. Diese umfassen die niederländische Tulpenmanie des 16. Jahrhunderts ebenso wie die französische Mississippi- bzw. Südsee-Spekulation des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts. Interessant zu lesen, weil eben aus der Sicht eines Autors aus der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts geschrieben, sind seine Ansichten zu den Hexenverfolgungen oder zu den Kreuzzügen.
Insgesamt erhält das Buch von mir 5 Sterne, weil es einen umfassenden Blick über die Verrücktheiten der Masse in der Geschichte der letzten Jahrhunderte gibt.
Ich freue mich, dass es das Buch jetzt auch in der Kindle-Version zu lesen gibt, denn es ist immer wieder ein paar Lesestunden wert. Der Autor hat die einzelnen Verrücktheiten der Massen sehr schön abgegrenzt in jeweils einzelne Kapitel. Diese umfassen die niederländische Tulpenmanie des 16. Jahrhunderts ebenso wie die französische Mississippi- bzw. Südsee-Spekulation des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts. Interessant zu lesen, weil eben aus der Sicht eines Autors aus der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts geschrieben, sind seine Ansichten zu den Hexenverfolgungen oder zu den Kreuzzügen.
Insgesamt erhält das Buch von mir 5 Sterne, weil es einen umfassenden Blick über die Verrücktheiten der Masse in der Geschichte der letzten Jahrhunderte gibt.
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Interesting read - one page at a time
I first saw a reference to this little book in the much larger book entitled More Money Than God. I was expecting more. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Oktober 2010 von David Lambl
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little has changed
in the field of the financial markets little has changed compared to the first crash in amsterdam in the 14th century. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juni 2002 von SwissNavigator
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The review under this one is really dumb. Whoever wrote it is extremely dumb. I cannot believe how dumb you are. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
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Have a good English dictionary at your side...
This is a fascinating book, once you can decipher the Chaucer-like English that Mackay uses. Keep in mind this book was written 160 years ago! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
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A Fascinating Book
The most fascinating thing about this book is how little things change. The South Sea Bubble episode which happened almost three hundred years ago is eerily similar to the whole... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Mai 2000 von Gideon Slifkin
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No progress in people's gullibility
The author tracks historical mass-mistakes with such clarity that it is easy to see the parallels with the world of today. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. März 2000 veröffentlicht
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Interesting, but not compelling reading...
The book contains numerous interesting anecdotes. If you are interested in Social History and Psychology, there is plenty to mull over. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Januar 2000 von Kris Shankar
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Don't know why it has been revised so much
It was boring so I stopped reading it
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