词条 | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds |
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| name = Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | image = Mackay 1841 edition front page.png | border = yes | image_size = | caption = Front page of the original 1841 edition | alt = Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | author = Charles Mackay | country = United Kingdom | language = English | subjects = Crowd psychology, economic bubbles, history | publisher= Richard Bentley, London | release_date= 1841 | media_type=Print | pages = | isbn = | dewey = | congress = | oclc = }} Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841.[1] The book was published in three volumes: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions".[2] Mackay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics. Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.[3] In later editions, Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another "popular delusion" which was at least as important as the South Sea Bubble. Mathematician Andrew Odlyzko has pointed out, in a published lecture, that Mackay himself played a role in this economic bubble; as leader writer in the Glasgow Argus, Mackay wrote on 2 October 1845: "There is no reason whatever to fear a crash".[4][5] Volume I: National DelusionsEconomic bubbles{{see also|Mississippi Company|South Sea Company|Tulip mania}}The first volume begins with a discussion of three economic bubbles, or financial manias: the South Sea Company bubble of 1711–1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719–1720, and the Dutch tulip mania of the early seventeenth century. According to Mackay, during this bubble, speculators from all walks of life bought and sold tulip bulbs and even futures contracts on them. Allegedly, some tulip bulb varieties briefly became the most expensive objects in the world during 1637.[6] Mackay's accounts are enlivened by colorful, comedic anecdotes, such as the Parisian hunchback who supposedly profited by renting out his hump as a writing desk during the height of the mania surrounding the Mississippi Company. Two modern researchers, Peter Garber and Anne Goldgar, independently conclude that Mackay greatly exaggerated the scale and effects of the Tulip bubble,[7] and Mike Dash, in his modern popular history of the alleged bubble, notes that he believes the importance and extent of the tulip mania were overstated.[8] Chapters in Vol I
Volume II: Peculiar FolliesCrusades{{see also|Crusades}}Mackay describes the history of the Crusades as a kind of mania of the Middle Ages, precipitated by the pilgrimages of Europeans to the Holy lands. Mackay is generally unsympathetic to the Crusaders, whom he compares unfavourably to the superior civilisation of Asia: "Europe expended millions of her treasures, and the blood of two millions of her children; and a handful of quarrelsome knights retained possession of Palestine for about one hundred years!" Witch mania{{see also|Witch trials in the early modern period}}Witch trials in 16th- and 17th-century Western Europe are the primary focus of the "Witch Mania" section of the book, which asserts that this was a time when ill fortune was likely to be attributed to supernatural causes. Mackay notes that many of these cases were initiated as a way of settling scores among neighbors or associates, and that extremely low standards of evidence were applied to most of these trials. Mackay claims that "thousands upon thousands" of people were executed as witches over two and a half centuries, with the largest numbers killed in Germany and Spain. Chapters in Vol II
Volume III: Philosophical DelusionsAlchemists{{see also|Alchemy}}The section on alchemysts focuses primarily on efforts to turn base metals into gold. Mackay notes that many of these practitioners were themselves deluded, convinced that these feats could be performed if they discovered the correct old recipe or stumbled upon the right combination of ingredients. Although alchemists gained money from their sponsors, mainly noblemen, he notes that the belief in alchemy by sponsors could be hazardous to its practitioners, as it wasn't rare for an unscrupulous noble to imprison a supposed alchemist until he could produce gold. Sections in Vol III
Influence and modern responsesThe book remains in print, and writers continue to discuss its influence, particularly the section on financial bubbles. (See Goldsmith and Lewis, below.)
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ReferencesNotes1. ^{{Cite book |last=Mackay |first=Charles |year=1841 |title= Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds |publisher= Richard Bentley|place=London |edition= 1 |volume=I |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ufoLAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor%3A%22Charles%20Mackay%22&hl=bg&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=29 April 2015}}{{Cite book |last=Mackay |first=Charles |year=1841 |title= Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds |publisher= Richard Bentley|place=London |edition= 1 |volume=II |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=hiMOAAAAYAAJ&dq=editions%3AUDOphQOmg4cC&hl=bg&pg=PP13#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=29 April 2015}}{{Cite book |last=Mackay |first=Charles |year=1841 |title= Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds |publisher= Richard Bentley|place=London |edition= 1 |volume=III |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=J2JXTONN3O4C&dq=editions%3AUDOphQOmg4cC&hl=bg&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=29 April 2015}} Bibliography2. ^{{cite book|last1=Mackay|first1=Charles|title=Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds|date=1841|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040623130633/http://www.litrix.com/madraven/madne001.htm|accessdate=23 March 2018}} 3. ^1 {{cite book | title=The Real Price of Everything | author=Lewis, Michael | year=2008}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=MacKay, Charles|title=Extraordinary Popular Delusions, the Money Mania: The Mississippi Scheme, the South-sea Bubble, & the Tulipomania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=326VJ5TcUd4C&pg=PA88|accessdate=8 June 2013|date=1 December 2008|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60520-547-2|page=88}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=Odyyzko, Andrew|url=http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/mania04.pdf |title=Charles Mackay’s own extraordinary popular delusions and the Railway Mania|date=2012|page= 2}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://library.wur.nl/tulips/|website=library.wur.nl|title=Tulips}} 7. ^{{cite book | title=Famous First Bubbles | author=Garber, Peter M. | year=2001}} 8. ^{{cite book | title=Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused | author=Dash, Mike | year=2001}} 9. ^{{cite book|author=Baruch, Bernard|title=My Own Story|location= New York|publisher= Henry Holt|date= 1957|pages=242–245}} 10. ^{{cite web|last=Ohayon|first=Albert|title=John Law and the Mississippi Bubble: The Madness of Crowds|url=http://blog.nfb.ca/2011/06/22/john-law-and-the-mississippi-bubble-the-madness-of-crowds/|work=NFB.ca Blog|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=22 June 2011}} 11. ^{{cite news | url = https://www.forbes.com/2007/05/30/china-bubble-wachovia-pf-ii-in_rs_0530soapbox_inl.html | title = China Bubble Mania | work = Forbes | accessdate = 2009-10-30 | date=2007-05-30}} 12. ^{{cite book | title=The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country | author=Gaiman, Neil | year=1991}} 13. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2008/ca20081216_263901.htm | title = The Madness of Crowds, Past and Present | work = BusinessWeek | accessdate = 2009-10-01 }} 14. ^{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-books-cashing-in-on-the-crash-1823810.html | title = The books cashing in on the crash | work = The Independent | accessdate = 2009-11-23 | location=London | date=2009-11-20}} 15. ^{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/business/economy/29econ.html | title = Phoenix Leads the Way Down in Home Prices | work = The New York Times | accessdate = 2009-11-23 | first1=David | last1=Streitfeld | first2=Jack | last2=and Healy | date=2009-04-29}} 16. ^{{cite news | url = http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IC16Dj04.html | title = The subprime dominoes in motion | work = Asia Times | accessdate = 2010-11-15 | first1=Julian | last1=Delasantellis | date=2007-03-16}} 17. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/10/random-mackay-phrase-masses | title = To be honest, it's totally random | work = New Statesman | accessdate = 2009-10-12 }} 18. ^{{cite book | title=The Wisdom of Crowds | author=Surowiecki, James | year=2004}}
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