Charles Mackay – Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Charles Mackay’s *Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds* is a classic 1841 study of mass hysteria, speculative bubbles, and crowd psychology, famously analyzing episodes like tulip mania.
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| instanceOf |
history book
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non-fiction book → work of social psychology → |
| 19thCenturyPublication |
true
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| author |
Charles Mackay
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| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| firstEditionFormat |
three volumes
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| genre |
economic history
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popular history → social psychology → |
| hasLaterEditions |
abridged editions
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annotated editions → modern reprints → |
| hasTheme |
contagion of ideas
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financial speculation → herd behavior → irrational behavior of crowds → market psychology → moral panics → |
| influenced |
behavioral finance
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modern crowd psychology → popular writing on financial bubbles → |
| isFrequentlyCitedIn |
economic history studies
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finance literature → works on bubbles and crashes → |
| literaryStatus |
classic of crowd psychology
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classic of financial literature → |
| mainSubject |
crowd psychology
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economic bubbles → mass hysteria → speculative bubbles → |
| notableCaseStudy |
Crusades
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Mississippi Bubble → South Sea Bubble → Tulip mania → alchemy manias → witch hunts → |
| originalLanguage |
English
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| partTitle |
National Delusions
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Peculiar Follies → Philosophical Delusions → |
| publicationYear |
1841
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| publisher |
Richard Bentley
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| structure |
three parts
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| timePeriodDescribed |
17th century
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18th century → Early modern period → Middle Ages → |
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| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Tulip mania
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