Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (Library of Essential Reading)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781411428591 (1411428595)
Publish date: September 1st 2009
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Pages no: 656
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
Science,
Business,
Economics,
Religion,
Politics,
19th Century,
Psychology
We tend to think of sarcasm as a modern affliction, but Charles Mackay's writing is as sarcastic as anything I have ever read. Extraordinary Popular Delusions is a 700 page study of what Mackay calls the Madness of Europe, up until 1841. The book is divided into long and short sections, depending on...
I've had a lot going on for the past week and a half, so it ended up taking me much longer to get through this book than I had expected it to. Every time I'd finally get to sit down to read, something else would happen, and I wouldn't be able to get back to it for the next day and a half.Interruptio...
To be honest, I did not finish this book. The beginning was extremely interesting and well written. But as the story of the financial bubbles goes, it sounds more like the author is dragging his feet into the littles stories, instead of talking about the big one, the one I was initially interested i...
12 years ago
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