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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Historical commentary
Bubbles, prophecies and the things people desperately wanted to believe.
A Victorian cabinet of collective certainty. Its anecdotes invite questions of their own; this is historical commentary, not a settled modern psychology or economic-history authority.
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London: R. Bentley, 1841; three volumes; original English
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