Charles Mackay, L.L.D., was a Scottish journalist in the nineteenth century. He received an honorary law degree from Glasgow University and was a renowned poet and songwriter.
More than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase 'irrational exuberance' to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of 'tulipomania', a speculative madness surrounding the value of tulips in the 18th century that was the ruin of many Dutch and English investors. This is only one of the 'extraordinary popular delusions' documented by Mackay in a fascinating study of group psychology. He also describes notorious witch hunts, haunted houses, the Crusades, beliefs in fortune tellers and in the magical power of alchemy, veneration of relics, bogus health cures and health scares, and many other examples of human credulity and flights from reason. This work is a true classic in the study of paranormal beliefs, a funny, shocking, and unbelievable yet true history of human gullibility.
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我們說要理性,實際上是像錶達這樣一個意思:要做得閤理。比如說兩個東北人,他看瞭他一眼,他說,你瞅啥,他說,瞅你咋地,然後兩個人找地方嘮嘮,搞不好,或者就進醫院,或者就吃牢飯。非大砍省的人可能會覺得太不理性瞭,他們覺得這“後果”就因一個眼神引起,不值得。但是...
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評分我們說要理性,實際上是像錶達這樣一個意思:要做得閤理。比如說兩個東北人,他看瞭他一眼,他說,你瞅啥,他說,瞅你咋地,然後兩個人找地方嘮嘮,搞不好,或者就進醫院,或者就吃牢飯。非大砍省的人可能會覺得太不理性瞭,他們覺得這“後果”就因一個眼神引起,不值得。但是...
圖書標籤: 經濟學 歐洲 哲學 Charles_Mackay 蘇格蘭 英國
Extraordinary Popular Delusions 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載