Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay - Book

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

By CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D. AUTHOR OF “EGERIA,” “THE SALAMANDRINE,” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.
N’en déplaise à ces fous nommés sages de Grèce,
En ce monde il n’est point de parfaite sagesse;
Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgré tous leurs soîns
Ne diffèrent entre eux que du plus ou du moins.
BOILEAU.
LONDON: OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY, 227 STRAND.
1852.
THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME: GARDENS OF THE HOTEL DE SOISSONS, 1720.
MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS.
VOLUME I.

Charles Mackay
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Язык

Английский

Год издания

2008-02-05

Темы

Social psychology; Swindlers and swindling; Impostors and imposture; Alchemy; Delusions; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Investments -- Psychological aspects; Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects; Hallucinations and illusions; Common fallacies

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