Markets, Mobs, and Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds

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UPC:
9780471233275
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
8/30/2002
Author:
Robert Menschel
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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In this fascinating tour through cultural, global, economic, and business history, icon of the financial world Robert Menschel explores the phenomenon of crowd psychology and its effects on business and culture. Explaining how crowd psychology creates market bubbles and irrational exuberance, Menschel mines world historyfrom the rise of the Nazis in Germany, to the fanatical love of brands, to the Dutch tulip craze of the seventeenth century, to Americas 1990s Internet bubbleto reveal how the behavior of crowds negatively affects the business world. Championing the causes of individuality and common sense, Markets, Mobs & Mayhem offers real wisdom for investors who want to keep their wits when everyone else is losing theirs.