Fundamental analysis · Beginner
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
The 1841 account of the South Sea Bubble and tulip mania. Read the money chapters and you will recognise every pump group operating in Nepal today.
Out of copyright — read the whole book here, free.
The complete text is stored on this site. No account, no other website. About 278,865 words, roughly 21 hours of reading.
- First published
- 1841
- Length
- 724 pages
- ISBN
- 9781566191692
The highlights
What this book actually gives you, in short.
- 1
Documents the South Sea Bubble and tulip mania closely enough that you can see the mechanics repeat.
- 2
Shows manias are driven by ordinary people behaving reasonably in sequence, not by fools.
- 3
The pattern it describes is exactly what a modern pump group runs on a thinly traded NEPSE stock.
At a glance
Drawn from the catalogue record — every line here is a checkable fact about the book, not an opinion about it.
- Covers Stock exchanges, Occultism, Common fallacies, Psychological aspects of Investments, Impostors and imposture.
- First published in 1841.
- About 724 pages, roughly 16 hours of reading.
- The complete text is hosted on this site — read it here, free.
In the author’s own words
Taken word for word from the text on this site. Each one links to the page it appears on.
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
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