How Long to Read Extraordinary Popular Delusions

How Long Does it Take to Read Extraordinary Popular Delusions?

It takes the average reader 12 hours and 35 minutes to read Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Today, as in the time of the South Sea Bubble, human nature is drawn like a moth to flame by the speculative fads of the marketplace. The excitement of new glamour issues in electronics or medical technology, the general euphoria over a rising market; these lure even many experienced investors. Their optimism overcomes their better judgment. They abandon critical analysis of the investment's fundamental value. Like gamblers in a casino they play against the odds, paying inflated prices and dreaming of quick profit.” — from the foreword by John Marks Templeton Mackay's classic, first published in 1841, studies the psychology of crowds and mass mania throughout history, including accounts of classic scams, grand-scale madness, and deceptions. Some of these include the Mississippi scheme that swept France in 1720, the South Sea Bubble that ruined thousands in England at the same time, and the tulip mania of Holland, when fortunes were made and lost on single tulip bulbs. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions that often spring from valid ideas of causes, many of which still have their followers today: alchemy and the philosopher's stone, the prophecies of Nostradamus, the coming of comets and judgment day, the Rosicrucians, and astrology. Time and again we can avoid disastrous pitfalls and learn to profit by seeing the ways that history repeats itself. Fascinating, mesmerizing, strikingly strange, and amazingly shrewd, this book will never be forgotten and cannot be ignored.

How long is Extraordinary Popular Delusions?

Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay is 744 pages long, and a total of 188,976 words.

This makes it 251% the length of the average book. It also has 231% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Extraordinary Popular Delusions Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 17 hours and 12 minutes to read Extraordinary Popular Delusions aloud.

What Reading Level is Extraordinary Popular Delusions?

Extraordinary Popular Delusions is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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