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EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS EBOOK (edición en inglés) de CHARLES MACKAY
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EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS EBOOK (edición en inglés)
CHARLES MACKAY
Idioma: INGLÉS
Formatos: Pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2
ISBN: 8596547813958
Editorial: GOOD PRESS
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Overview
This edition represents an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". MacKay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style. The subjects of Mackays debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. Scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan mentioned the book in his own discussion about pseudoscience, popular delusions, and hoaxes. Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter.
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