Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions
by Charles Mackay · first published 1841
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…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion... Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841 under the title Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions.[1] The book was published in three volumes: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions".[2
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