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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841.

The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: " National Delusions ", " Peculiar Follies ", and " Philosophical Delusions ".

Despite its journalistic and rather sensational style, the book has gathered a body of academic support as a work of considerable importance in the history of social psychology and psychopathology.