Author
Charles Mackay
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) was a Scottish journalist, poet and editor. The book came out in 1841 and is still considered a classic on financial bubbles and crowd psychology.
Books in Livria
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Why do clever people pay money for a tulip bulb or for shares in a company whose purpose nobody knows? Charles Mackay gathered the loudest manias of the past: the paper fever in France, the South Sea Company bubble…