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200 10$aMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions$b[electronic resource]
210   $aNew York $cSheba Blake Publishing$d2014
215   $a1 online resource (2175 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
327   $aIntro -- MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS -- PREFACE -- ?????????) -- VOLUME I -- MONEY MANIA -- THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE -- ?????????) -- LIST OF BUBBLES -- THE TULIPOMANIA -- ?????????) -- THE ALCHYMISTS -- ?????????) -- INFERIOR ADEPTS OF THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES -- INFERIOR ALCHYMISTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- ?????????) -- PRESENT STATE OF ALCHYMY -- INFLUENCE OF POLITICS AND RELIGION ON THE HAIR AND BEARD -- ?????????) -- VOLUME II -- THE CRUSADES -- ?????????) -- THE WITCH MANIA -- THE SLOW POISONERS -- ?????????) -- HAUNTED HOUSES -- POPULAR FOLLIES OF GREAT CITIES -- ?????????) -- POPULAR ADMIRATION OF GREAT THIEVES -- DUELS AND ORDEALS -- ?????????) -- RELICS -- INDEX.
330   $a Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, published in 1841, is the history of popular folly in three parts: ""National Delusions"", ""Peculiar Follies"", and ""Philosophical Delusions"". These break down into: economic bubbles, alchemy, crusades, witch-hunts, prophecies, fortune-telling, magnetisers (the influence of one's imagination in curing disease), shape of a person's hair or beard (in its influence on politics and religion), murder by poisoning, haunted houses, collective foolishness of great cities, popular admiration of great thieves, due
606   $aCommon fallacies
606   $aDelusions
606   $aImpostors and imposture
606   $aInvestments -- Psychological aspects
606   $aOccultism -- Early works to 1900
606   $aSocial psychology
606   $aStock exchanges -- Psychological aspects
606   $aSwindlers and swindling
615  4$aCommon fallacies.
615  4$aDelusions.
615  4$aImpostors and imposture.
615  4$aInvestments -- Psychological aspects.
615  4$aOccultism -- Early works to 1900.
615  4$aSocial psychology.
615  4$aStock exchanges -- Psychological aspects.
615  4$aSwindlers and swindling.
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