{"product_id":"memoirs-of-extraordinary-popular-delusions-the-madness-of-crowds-paperback","title":"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions: The Madness of Crowds - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles MacKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Madness of Crowds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Charles Mackay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn later editions Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another \"popular delusion,\" of importance at least comparable with 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNATIONAL DELUSIONS.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLIST OF BUBBLES.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE TULIPOMANIA.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRELICS.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMODERN PROPHECIES.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePOPULAR ADMIRATION FOR GREAT THIEVES.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eINFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND RELIGION ON THE HAIR AND BEARD.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDUELS AND ORDEALS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE LOVE OF THE MARVELLOUS AND THE DISBELIEF OF THE TRUE.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePOPULAR FOLLIES IN GREAT CITIES\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE O.P. MANIA.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE THUGS, or PHANSIGARS.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48192583303338,"sku":"9781523420520","price":23.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/1475\/4218\/files\/U1RYWmNPWkp0OEhmd2liZVpMUFhMZz09.webp?v=1775786686","url":"https:\/\/wiccancenter.com\/products\/memoirs-of-extraordinary-popular-delusions-the-madness-of-crowds-paperback","provider":"Wiccan Center","version":"1.0","type":"link"}