Extraordinary popular delusions : and the madness of crowds /
Mackay, Charles,1814-1889.
Baruch, Bernard M.(Bernard Mannes),1870-1965.
London : George G. Harrap,
1956.
Reprint of ed. of 1852.
First ed. published in 1841 under title: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Mississippi scheme -- The South-Sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The Crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.
Common fallacies.
Impostors and imposture.
Swindlers and swindling.
Occultism
Hallucinations and illusions.
Delusions.
Social psychology.
Investments