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The Delusions of Crowds by William J. Bernstein is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late December.
The concept of people being moved in an act of massive peer pressure and herd mentality to do weird, confusing, and awful things out of jealousy, resentment, greed, latent fear, frenzy, or divine favor. Bernstein pinpoints areas in history during biblical times, the Lutheran reformation, financial and economic busts, precursors to the Industrial Revolution, the annexation of Israel, cataclysmic prophecies through many different occasions, timeframes, in reality and on film; all described very densely and detailed.
The concept of people being moved in an act of massive peer pressure and herd mentality to do weird, confusing, and awful things out of jealousy, resentment, greed, latent fear, frenzy, or divine favor. Bernstein pinpoints areas in history during biblical times, the Lutheran reformation, financial and economic busts, precursors to the Industrial Revolution, the annexation of Israel, cataclysmic prophecies through many different occasions, timeframes, in reality and on film; all described very densely and detailed.