Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 128 pages, black & white illustrations

Publisher:Harriman House Publishing

Imprint:Harriman House Publishing

Edition:Financial Edition

ISBN:9780857193179

Published:1 Jun 2013

Weight:135g

Dimensions:203 x 120 x 6(mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

注：此版本為非完整版。

書籍簡介

首次出版於1841年的《非同尋常的大眾幻想與羣眾性癲狂》經常被認為是有史以來關於市場心理學的書籍。Harriman House的這個版本包括查爾斯·麥基對三種臭名昭著的金融狂熱的描述--約翰·勞的密西西比計劃、南海泡沫和鬱金香狂熱。

在他們三個人之間，這些歷史性的事件證實了貪婪和恐懼一直是金融市場的驅動力，此外，理智和聰明並不能抵禦流行熱潮背後的迷惑性誘惑力。

在撰寫偉大的金融狂熱史時，查爾斯·麥基證明了自己是社會和金融史的編年史大師。他擁有一個涵蓋所有惡習的人物陣容，擁有一段不可避免地走向災難的事件，並且擁有事後諸葛亮的好處，他創作的記錄既是一部引人入勝的驚悚片，又是一部引人入勝的歷史文獻。一個半世紀之後，它仍然像寫下的那一天一樣充滿活力和激情。

對於現代的投資者來説，他們仍然對網絡崩潰感到不安，流行的狂熱的寓意幾乎不需要説明。當下一個股市泡沫出現的時候，因為它肯定會出現，我們建議你回想一下這些頁面上一些不幸者的困境，避免自己被拖入飛馳的車輪下。

First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay's account of the three infamous financial manias - John Law's Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania.

Between the three of them, these historic episodes confirm that greed and fear have always been the driving forces of financial markets, and, furthermore, that being sensible and clever is no defence against the mesmeric allure of a popular craze with the wind behind it.

In writing the history of the great financial manias, Charles Mackay proved himself a master chronicler of social as well as financial history. Blessed with a cast of characters that covered all the vices, gifted a passage of events which was inevitably heading for disaster, and with the benefit of hindsight, he produced a record that is at once a riveting thriller and absorbing historical document. A century and a half later, it is as vibrant and lurid as the day it was written.

For modern-day investors, still reeling from the dotcom crash, the moral of the popular manias scarcely needs spelling out. When the next stock market bubble comes along, as it surely will, you are advised to recall the plight of some of the unfortunates on these pages, and avoid getting dragged under the wheels of the careering bandwagon yourself.

作者簡介

查爾斯·麥基（CharlesMackay，1814—1889年）是19世紀蘇格蘭著名學者，格拉斯哥大學名譽法學博士、著名詩人、詞作家。其主要著作有《歌與詩》、《倫敦史》、《蘇格蘭低地詞典》以及《大癲狂：非常尋常的大眾幻想與羣眾性癲狂》等。

Charles Mackay (1814-1889) was born in Perth, Scotland. His mother died shortly after his birth, and his father, who had been in turn a Lieutenant on a Royal Navy sloop (captured and imprisoned for four years in France) and then an Ensign in the 47th foot taking part in the ill-fated Walcheren Expedition where he contracted malaria, sent young Charles to live with a nurse in Woolwich in 1822. After a couple of years' education in Brussels from 1828-1830, he became a journalist and songwriter in London. He worked on The Morning Chronicle from 1835-1844, when he was appointed Editor of The Glasgow Argus. His song The Good Time Coming sold 400,000 copies in 1846, the year that he was awarded his Doctorate of Literature by Glasgow University. He was a friend of influential figures such as Charles Dickens and Henry Russell, and moved to London to work on The Illustrated London News in 1848, and he became Editor of it in 1852. He was a correspondent for The Times during the American Civil War, but thereafter concentrated on writing books. Apart from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, he is best remembered for his songs and his Dictionary of Lowland Scotch.