{"product_id":"extraordinary-popular-delusions","title":"Extraordinary Popular Delusions","description":"This classic survey of crowd psychology offers an illuminating and entertaining look at three grand-scale swindles. Originally published in England in 1841, its remarkable tales of human folly reveal that the hysteria of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the junk-bonds frenzy of the 1980s were far from uniquely twentieth-century phenomena.\nThe first of the financial scandals discussed, \"The Mississippi Scheme,\" concerns a disastrous eighteenth-century plan for the commercial exploitation of the Mississippi valley, where investors were lured by Louisiana's repute as a region of gold and silver mountains. During the same era, thousands of English investors were ruined by \"The South-Sea Bubble,\" a stock exchange based on British trade with the islands of the South Seas and South America. The third episode involves Holland's seventeenth-century \"Tulipomania,\" when people went into debt collecting tulip bulbs — until a sudden depreciation in the bulbs' value rendered them worthless (except as flowers).\nFired by greed and fed by naiveté, these historic investment strategies gone awry retain an irrefutable relevance for modern times. Extraordinary Popular Delusions is essential and enthralling reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0486432238\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0486432238.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Mackay, Charles\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41505460387898,"sku":"DBV.0486432238.G","price":7.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0486432238-0.jpg?v=1783188379","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/extraordinary-popular-delusions","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}