Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Tim Phillips' thoroughly up-to-date interpretation of Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, a classic of popular psychology, illustrates the principles of Mackay's analysis of financial bubbles with modern examples to enable 21st century readers to understand crowd psychology and invest wisely.

Tim Phillips has been a freelance journalist since 1990, writing about business, technology, social change and innovation. He has written for the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, The Times, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent and the Daily Express among others. For two years he was a technology and Internet columnist for the guardian. Tim is also author of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Beat the odds: Winning ideas for smart gamblers and Scoring Points: How Tesco is Winning Customer Loyalty.