Hey everybody - there was a book mentioned on here....

...that I was looking to get, but now I can't remember the name. It had to do with market "bubbles" and crazy trends and delusions of the masses ...and the title sounded something like that - for example "Crazy Delusions of the Marketplace and other such mass Hysteria" ... the title had that kinda' cadence.

Does anyone remember a book that sounded kinda' like that on here (available on eBay and Amazon, used or new, I'm sure - but I can't search for it without knowing the name or author - arrgh!)? It's supposed to be THE book to read to understand why bubbles (like the internet bubble) occur/occurred by giving examples of such throughout history (from what I understand though, or what i remember, it was written before the internet bubble).

Any clues?

Thanx!

-Anon

> ...that I was looking to get, but now I
> can't remember the name. It had to do with
> market "bubbles" and crazy trends
> and delusions of the masses ...and the title
> sounded something like that - for example
> "Crazy Delusions of the Marketplace and
> other such mass Hysteria" ... the title
> had that kinda' cadence.

The search engine is acting a bit funny... I'll have to fix that.

However, I found the post you *might* be looking for. It's a post by Boyd - another one of his short, yet valuable posts!

Boyd's post links to an article, which mentions the book you might be looking for. The book is called "Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises" by Charles P. Kindleberger. (It seems to be about the same topic.)

Here's a link to Boyd's original post (you can follow it to the article)....

http://www.sowpub.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl?read=9437

It could be relevant now, since many people think we are currently in a real estate bubble.

- Dien

...for some reason there's an element of "delusion" or something like that ... in other words the title had something to do with not only the markets and crashes, but really any kind of baseless "hysteria" ... the title you mention comes awfully close... so much so that i'm beginning to doubt my own memory on this (in fact, I seem to remember Boyd mentioning the book also).

Arrgh... this is drivin' me nuts! It's like the title is on the edge of my tongue ...

Thanks anyway Dien... maybe as the weekend peters out more will view and comment...

-Anon.

> The search engine is acting a bit funny...
> I'll have to fix that.

> However, I found the post you *might* be
> looking for. It's a post by Boyd - another
> one of his short, yet valuable posts!

> Boyd's post links to an article, which
> mentions the book you might be looking for.
> The book is called "Manias, Panics, and
> Crashes: A History of Financial Crises"
> by Charles P. Kindleberger. (It seems to be
> about the same topic.)

> Here's a link to Boyd's original post (you
> can follow it to the article)....

>
> http://www.sowpub.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl?read=9437
> It could be relevant now, since many people
> think we are currently in a real estate
> bubble.

> - Dien

The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. by Malcolm Gladwell

http://www.gladwell.com/books2.html

Here's another possibility....

"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay.

(Haven't read it myself, but it looks like it would be interesting!)

- Dien

> Here's another possibility....

> "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and
> the Madness of Crowds" by Charles
> Mackay.

I just found out you can read this online for free.... It was written in the 19th century.

For example, "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" can be found online here...
http://www.econlib.org/library/Mackay/macExContents.html

and "Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds" can be found online here....
http://www.litrix.com/madraven/madne001.htm

- Dien

... now you can imagine how difficult such a title was to remember, ey??

Thanks again for the effort!

-Anon

dno
> Here's another possibility....

> "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and
> the Madness of Crowds" by Charles
> Mackay.

> (Haven't read it myself, but it looks like
> it would be interesting!)

> - Dien

Just read chapter one of "Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds" - about John Law - and it's like reading about an old version of the internet bubble. Intersting.

Thanks for linking, Dien.

Michael Ross

The more things change, the more they stay the same. There's nothing new under the Sun. What goes around, comes around. Same s**t, different day. Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.

[Cynicism Off]

Good luck to us all,

- Boyd