This is the translation into Spanish of the first three chapters of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles MacKay. Este libro contiene los tres primeros capitulos de las "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," de Charles MacKay, en espanol. Estos capitulos relatan tres "manias" financieras: "El proyecto del Misisipi," "La burbuja del Mar del Sur" y "La mania de los tulipanes," en los que se cuenta el origen del papel moneda, de la expresion "burbuja" aplicada al hinchar los precios sin justificacion razonable y a la capacidad de especular...

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its targets in three parts: "National Delusions," "Peculiar Follies," and "Philosophical Delusions." Learn why intelligent people do amazingly stupid things when caught up in speculative edevorse. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.