Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds [recurso electrónico] / Charles Mackay - Project Gutenberg, 2008 - Project Gutenberg 24518 .

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.

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

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