Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Extraordinary Popular Delusions

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This classic survey of crowd psychology offers an illuminating and entertaining look at three grandscale swindles. Originally published in England in 1841, its remarkable tales of human folly reveal that the hysteria of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the junkbonds frenzy of the 1980s were far from uniquely twentiethcentury phenomena.The first of the financial scandals discussed, 'The Mississippi Scheme,' concerns a disastrous eighteenthcentury plan for the commercial exploitation of the Mississippi valley, where investors were lured by Louisiana's repute as a region of gold and silver mountains. During the same era, thousands of English investors were ruined by 'The SouthSea Bubble,' a stock exchange based on British trade with the islands of the South Seas and South America. The third episode involves Holland's seventeenthcentury 'Tulipomania,' when people went into debt collecting tulip bulbs until a sudden depreciation in the bulbs' value rendered them worthless (except as flowers).Fired by greed and fed by naivet, these historic investment strategies gone awry retain an irrefutable relevance for modern times. Extraordinary Popular Delusions is essential and enthralling reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.

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