Author: Richard Jennings
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Social Delusions Concerning Wealth and Want
Author: Richard Jennings
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Delusions of Crowds
Author: William J. Bernstein
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802157114
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This “disturbing yet fascinating” exploration of mass mania through the ages explains the biological and psychological roots of irrationality (Kirkus Reviews). From time immemorial, contagious narratives have spread through susceptible groups—with enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay’s nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, neurologist and author William Bernstein examines mass delusion through the lens of current scientific research in The Delusions of Crowds. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last five hundred years—from the Anabaptist Madness of the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that pervade today’s polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles. Through Bernstein’s supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their “desire to improve one’s well-being in this life or the next.” Bernstein’s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania. He observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of this all-too-human phenomenon, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its frequently dire impact.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802157114
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This “disturbing yet fascinating” exploration of mass mania through the ages explains the biological and psychological roots of irrationality (Kirkus Reviews). From time immemorial, contagious narratives have spread through susceptible groups—with enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay’s nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, neurologist and author William Bernstein examines mass delusion through the lens of current scientific research in The Delusions of Crowds. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last five hundred years—from the Anabaptist Madness of the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that pervade today’s polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles. Through Bernstein’s supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their “desire to improve one’s well-being in this life or the next.” Bernstein’s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania. He observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of this all-too-human phenomenon, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its frequently dire impact.
y vol. 6
Author: Thomas Tooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Personal Narrative of the Origin and Progress of the Caoutchouc Or India-rubber Manufacture in England
Author: Thomas Hancock
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts
ISBN:
Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts
ISBN:
Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A History of Prices and of the State of Circulation ...
Author: Thomas Tooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn laws (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn laws (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Critical and Historical Essays ...
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Outlines of Astronomy
Author: John Frederick William Herschel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
The Correlation of Physical Forces
Author: William Robert Grove
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti
Author: John Scandrett Harford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
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