Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusión de Confusiones (A Marketplace Book)

About this book

The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations and crimes.