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Jonah Lehrer A wonderful eclectic history of mass human irrationality, and a great history of financial bubbles. (Source)
Tom Joseph "Do you know who I am"- Trump cries a/b his status, Iran & Obama are panic b4 his bubble pops Mania's will end in panic as noted in a favorite book: Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. Not a plug-written in 1841 Trumpmania is now Trumpanic https://t.co/WnVGJ8Hung (Source)
John Gapper It’s a very patchy book, but it leads off with three classic financial booms and busts – tulip mania in Holland, the Mississippi scheme in 18th century France, and the South Sea Bubble. MacKay was a journalist with a fine tabloid style, and he writes it all up very entertainingly. He gets the eyewitness quotes and he finds the human foibles. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is ranked in the following categories:
- #94 in Critical Thinking
- #76 in Economic History
- #98 in Finance
- #77 in Investment
- #48 in Stock Trading
- #86 in Stocks