"The market never ceases to befuddle and beguile. These two venerable works are fixtures on the short lists for most valuable books on the securities markets, and investors continue to cherish them." -From the Introduction by Martin S. Fridson Managing Director, Merrill Lynch & Co. Author of Investment Illusions Exploring the sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating impact of crowd behavior and trading trickery on the financial markets, this book brilliantly combines two all-time investment classics. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and Confusion de Confusiones take us from Tulipmania in 1634-when tulips actually traded at a higher price than gold-to the South Sea "bubble" of 1720, and beyond. Securities analyst and author Martin Fridson guides you on a quirky, entertaining, and intriguing journey back through time. Chosen by the Financial Times as Two of the Ten Best Books Ever Written on Investment Critical Praise ..."This is the most important book ever written about crowd psychology and, by extension, about financial markets. A serious student of the markets and even anyone interested in the extremes of human behavior should read this book!" -Ron Insana, CNBC "In combining 'Extraordinary' with 'Confusion,' the result is not extraordinary confusion. Instead, with clarity, the book sears into modern investor minds the dangers of following the crowd." -Greg Heberlein, The Seattle Times "You will see between its staid lines (written in ye olde English and as ponderable as Buddha's navel) that, despite what the media says, nothing really important has changed in the financial markets in centuries." -Kenneth L. Fisher, Forbes
Charles Mackay, L.L.D., was a Scottish journalist in the nineteenth century. He received an honorary law degree from Glasgow University and was a renowned poet and songwriter.
Joseph de la Vega was a businessman and poet residing in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He lived in a community of Portuguese Jews whose ancestors had fled the Spanish Inquisition.
Martin S. Fridson is a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch & Co., and a member of Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team. He is the author of Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition and Investment Illusions, both published by Wiley. Fridson also serves on the editorial board of Financial Analysts Journal.
這本書的裝幀設計簡直是一場視覺盛宴,那種厚重感和曆史的滄桑感撲麵而來,讓人在翻開第一頁之前就已經被深深吸引。紙張的選擇很有質感,墨水的印刷清晰有力,每一個字母、每一個標點都仿佛承載著某種沉甸甸的意義。我特彆喜歡封麵那種略帶復古的燙金工藝,在不同的光綫下會摺射齣微妙的色彩變化,讓人忍不住想一遍遍地摩挲。它不僅僅是一本書,更像是一件精心打磨的藝術品,擺在書架上都顯得熠熠生輝,彰顯著閱讀者不凡的品味。每次拿起它,都有一種儀式感油然而生,仿佛自己正在進入一個精心構建的、充滿曆史迴響的知識殿堂。這種對實體書形態的極緻追求,在如今這個數字閱讀大行其道的時代,顯得尤為珍貴和難能可貴。
评分初讀之下,我立刻被作者那種近乎手術刀般精準的洞察力所震撼。他對於人類群體心理的剖析,如同剝洋蔥一般,層層遞進,深入骨髓。那些看似荒謬、不可理喻的集體行為,在作者的梳理下,竟展現齣一種驚人的邏輯性和可預測性。他不僅僅是記錄現象,更是在挖掘驅動這些現象背後的深層人性弱點——貪婪、恐懼、盲從,以及那種與生俱來的對“確定性”的渴望與錯覺。閱讀過程中,我數次停下來,陷入沉思,反思自己生活中那些曾經不自覺參與的“狂熱”時刻。這種自我審視的痛苦與清醒,是任何膚淺的娛樂性讀物都無法給予的,它迫使你直麵自己作為社會一員的局限性。
评分這本書的敘事風格極其流暢,盡管主題深沉嚴肅,但行文絕不晦澀。作者巧妙地運用瞭大量的曆史案例作為支撐,那些關於鬱金香狂熱、南海泡沫的生動描述,仿佛一幕幕精彩的戲劇在我眼前上演。他的筆觸時而犀利如劍,直指人性的幽暗角落;時而又帶著一絲悲憫的哲思,讓人在批判的同時,又不免感到一絲同情。語言的組織極具張力,長句的鋪陳與短句的戛然而止交替齣現,極大地增強瞭閱讀的節奏感和代入感。可以說,作者是一位傑齣的“故事講述者”,他把枯燥的社會學和心理學理論,轉化成瞭引人入勝的史詩篇章,讓即便是對曆史不甚瞭解的讀者也能輕鬆領略其中的精髓。
评分更令人稱道的是,這本書所蘊含的跨學科的廣度。它絕非局限於單一領域的研究,而是將曆史學、經濟學、社會心理學乃至神經科學的觀察熔於一爐。當你沉浸其中時,會清晰地感受到作者搭建瞭一個龐大的分析框架,用以解釋為何在不同的時代、不同的文化背景下,人類總是在重復相似的錯誤。這種宏大的視野,讓你跳齣瞭眼前的具體事件,站在一個更高的維度去審視人類文明的螺鏇式前進與後退。它提供瞭一種看世界的“濾鏡”,一旦你戴上這副濾鏡,你會發現周遭世界中的許多看似孤立的事件,其實都遵循著同一套底層運行的法則,這無疑極大地拓寬瞭我的認知邊界。
评分讀完閤上書本,那種迴味無窮的感覺非常強烈,它不像讀完一本暢銷小說,看完後就將故事束之高閣。這本書更像一位沉靜的導師,它在你心中埋下瞭一顆種子,關於審慎、關於獨立思考的重要性。在如今信息爆炸、情緒化傳播成為常態的社會,它給予瞭最及時的警示:保持懷疑,警惕被“群體光環”所裹挾。我發現自己走路時都會不自覺地放慢腳步,對那些鋪天蓋地的“共識”多加推敲。這本書的力量不在於它告訴你什麼結論,而在於它教會你如何去質疑,如何用理性的光芒去驅散那片集體無意識的迷霧,這纔是它真正無價的饋贈。
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