Markets and the Madness of Crowds. A Modern View of the Nature of Mass Insanity

Author: Robert Menschel
English.: Markets, Mobs and Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds
Series: Troika Dialog Library

Publisher: Olimp-Business, 2005.
Hardcover, 234 pp.
ISBN 5-9693-0006-3, 0-471-23327-7
Format: 60×90/16 (~145x217 mm) 

FROM THE PUBLISHER OF A BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF MASS INSANITY

The book examines and analyzes the most notable cases of mass insanity in history. The author touches on such phenomena as lynching, Nazism, but mainly his attention is drawn to episodes when reasonable and well-meaning people are seized by mass sentiments like "tulipmanomania"In seventeenth-century Holland, Wall Street Panic during the Great Depression, the Internet boom, the anthrax letters, or the theater fire.

An instructive overview of certain aspects of human nature, made with the testimony of eyewitnesses and participants in the events, is interesting and useful to a wide range of readers as well as public relations specialists, historians, and psychologists.