{"product_id":"extraordinary-popular-delusions-9780486432236","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.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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).\u003cbr\u003eFired by greed and fed by naivet , these historic investment strategies gone awry retain an irrefutable relevance for modern times. \u003ci\u003eExtraordinary Popular Delusions\u003c\/i\u003e is essential and enthralling reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780486432236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.28w x 0.26d","brand":"Charles MacKay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38025578381493,"sku":"9780486432236","price":6.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ef47be73-fa57-4b96-a051-47617d06817d.jpg?v=1609188208","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/extraordinary-popular-delusions-9780486432236","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}