Charles Mackay

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Charles Mackay was a 19th-century Scottish poet, journalist, and social commentator best known for his influential study of mass psychology and financial manias in "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds."

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journalist
poet
social commentator
author Charles Mackay
birthDate 1814-03-27
birthPlace Perth, Scotland
countryOfCitizenship Scotland
United Kingdom
deathDate 1889-12-24
employer Illustrated London News
Morning Chronicle
familyName Mackay
fieldOfWork economic history
journalism
literature
mass psychology
social commentary
genre economic history
non-fiction
poetry
social psychology
songs
givenName Charles
influenced historians of economic bubbles
students of behavioral finance
the field of crowd psychology
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainSubject crowd psychology
financial bubbles
mass hysteria
name Charles Mackay
notableIdea analysis of financial manias as crowd delusions
notableWork Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Songs for the People
Voices from the Crowd
occupation editor
journalist
poet
songwriter
placeOfDeath London, England
positionHeld editor of the Glasgow Argus
editor of the Illustrated London News
publicationDate 1841

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds author Charles Mackay
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds author Charles Mackay
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National Delusions author Charles Mackay
Peculiar Follies author Charles Mackay
Philosophical Delusions author Charles Mackay
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