Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds -Charles MacKay
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Mackay’s work, first published in 1841, chronicles the various fallacies and delusions that have afflicted human thinking during the modern period. Though the scope of the first edition was wide ranging–including alchemy, fortune-telling, haunted houses and other forms of philosophical delusion.