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Charles Mackay (1814-1889) was born in Perth, Scotland, and over a prolific career in letters wrote poetry, journalism, novels, dictionaries and songs. Best-known in his lifetime for the last of these - which were set to music and became phenomenally popular - he is today best remembered for his epic guide to crowd psychology, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, which has ... Read more on Charles Mackay
"You might have Popular Delusions already. But it is still worth looking at the new edition if only for the warning it contains from Mr Napier." Merryn Somerset Webb, Financial Times
Financial Times
Good news, then, that Charles Mackay’s classic history of manias, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, has just been reissued. The 1841 book has its fair share of fiction in ...
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When Harriman House announced the publication of the “definitive edition” of Charles Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, I wondered what made it stand out from ...
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Listed by the Financial Times as one of the 10 best books ever written on investment, Charles Mackay’s study of how manias start, develop and eventually pass is as relevant today as it was nearly ...
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Next, on the subject of group think and general hysteria, your own pre-Christmas reading should include Charles MacKay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
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