TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackay, Charles.
TI  - Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
SN  - 9781452202983
U1  - 001.96MAC 
PY  - 1932///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Page & company
KW  - Impostors and imposture
N2  - The text concentrates on a wide variety of phenomena which had occurred over the centuries prior to this book's publication in 1841. Mackay begins by examining various economic bubbles, such as the infamous Tulipomania - wherein Dutch tulips rocketed in value amid claims they could be substituted for actual currency - and various follies spread by word of mouth in urban areas
ER  -