Mehr zum Buch
"This informative, funny collection of popular delusions, from Alchemy to Mesmerism, has become a classic--a study of mass manias, crowd behavior, and human folly. The book encompasses a broad range of scams, manias, and deceptions including witch burnings and the Great Crusades. Here are the human quirks that created the Mississippi Bubble and Tulipomania--when speculators lost fortunes on a single tulip bulb. Here are the follies and fads that dictated fashion through the ages. Here is a book that affords fascinating and entertaining insight into how sensible, intelligent people may be transformed into mayhem-making mobs."--Adapted from back cover
Sprache
Buchkauf
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay, Andrew P. Tobias
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1980,
- Buchzustand
- Beschädigt
- Preis
- 7,68 €inkl. MwSt.
Hier könnte deine Bewertung stehen.
- Titel
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Charles Mackay, Andrew P. Tobias
- Verlag
- Harmony Books (NY)
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1980
- Seitenzahl
- 724
- ISBN10
- 0517541238
- ISBN13
- 9780517541234
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Handel, Wirtschaft & Management, Psychologische Thematik, Psychologie, Ökonomie, Soziologie, Finanzen
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- "This informative, funny collection of popular delusions, from Alchemy to Mesmerism, has become a classic--a study of mass manias, crowd behavior, and human folly. The book encompasses a broad range of scams, manias, and deceptions including witch burnings and the Great Crusades. Here are the human quirks that created the Mississippi Bubble and Tulipomania--when speculators lost fortunes on a single tulip bulb. Here are the follies and fads that dictated fashion through the ages. Here is a book that affords fascinating and entertaining insight into how sensible, intelligent people may be transformed into mayhem-making mobs."--Adapted from back cover