Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

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07/03/2012

Interesting to read!

"480 pages of manias, financial bubbles, runaway enthusiasm, mass disillusion and wildly optimistic projections and forecasts is a pretty challenging read. However, here's a book thats entertaining as well as informative. The book contains not only useful information, but also numerous interesting Read more...

06/22/2011

A Very Enjoyable Read

"A very entertaining read about mass delusions in history. It covers up to 1840 (when it was written!) yet is surprisingly relevant to today. Market style boom-bust cycles, like the dutch tulip mania are covered in a chapter on financial delusions. "

04/27/2011

History repeats itself

"If we don't learn from our mistakes we don't learn. This book is brilliantly researched and describes the mania of bubbles and the craziness that happens time and again. Why do you need to read Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds? Because we have to learn from other's mistak Read more...

03/05/2011

historical manias explained

"i very much enjoyed the first three chapters - style of writing and subject matter. i think the book is well-researched. but i felt like i was slogging through the rest of it because the style of writing changed to chapters by subject matter. i wished that he would have picked just a couple of in Read more...

02/25/2011

Great Reading

This is a must read for all new and experienced traders,

11/15/2010

Becuase of Benard Baruch and Jesse Livermore

I bought it because it is the favorite book of Bernard Baruch and Jesse Livermore, both were great trader in their own right. The behavior theory in this book is great, especially for trading.

10/31/2010

The Classic Bubble Book

As a financial historian, I loved this book. I've used excerpts from this book for financial history classes that I have taught. If you think that dot com stocks were the first big bubble, then you need to read this book.

Luke11

10/27/2010

bubbles and mania

Hard to read book, didn't really learn all that much but it was well researched, talking about some of the bubbles and mania that existed in the past like the tulip and South Seas bubbles. The story John Law and the French markets after a manic period was very interesting. This book does help toda Read more...

Tommy_Kurtz

10/04/2010

"Men think in herds...they go mad in herds..."

"It's been a while since I read this book, but from what I remember of the historical cases of public manias like the South Sea Company and the Holland tulip craze, among others, you get very detailed studies of how hype and greed can fuel frenzies amongst large swaths of people looking to get rich Read more...

07/16/2010

One of the Best Books Ever

I love this book. It's about a mass stupidity stories from all over, from whenever. There are always going to be a mass of idiots and not being one of them, and even better, learning how to make the most of them in cases enormous or small, matters. Enjoyable read so I suggest you buy it.