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.
The 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).
Fired 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.
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.
其实讲的内容也无非就是郁金香风潮那一套,已经在百年间由各种各样的人和事件演绎过了,有out of date的感觉,非专业人士可以一看,但是感觉收获不大。
评分群众疯狂乃人性的本质 书中介绍了三个故事:密西西比计划、南海泡沫、郁金香狂潮,最后一张罗列零碎的历史片段,讲述人类在恐惧之下如何作出不理智的判断。 令人难以置信的是,前两个大众狂热故事的背后,竟然隐含着国家级的财政计划。当然,这种人为制造狂热企图化解经济危机...
评分 评分这本书一直是我数目上的必读书,无奈之前只有选译本,没有全译本,最近出了全译本,我终于明白了为何它过去只有节译本 国内介绍这本书的时候,一般都作为金融经济类的参考书,说它详细地记录了1636年荷兰的“郁金香疯狂”、1720年英国的“南海泡沫”和1720年法国的“密西西比...
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