Wow! eBook
The Art of Contrary Thinking Enlarged Edition
Author(s): Humphrey B Neill (Author)
- Publisher: Caxton Press
- Publication Date: 26 Oct. 2018
- Edition: Enlarged
- Language: English
- Print length: 174 pages
- ISBN-10: 087004110X
- ISBN-13: 9780870041105
Book Description
“Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press”
“When everybody thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong.” The ten words quoted above are, according to Humphrey B. Neill, a potent factor behind the economic booms and busts that blight our civilization. The “Mississippi Bubble,” Holland’s incredible “Tulipmania” and the New York stock market crash of 1929 are historic examples of disasters magnified and hastened by the pressure of mass opinion. Neill describes these occurrences in detail and tells the reader how to avoid and recognize the dangers that “following the pack” can pose to the discerning investor.
“When everybody thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong.” The ten words quoted above are, according to Humphrey B. Neill, a potent factor behind the economic booms and busts that blight our civilization. The “Mississippi Bubble,” Holland’s incredible “Tulipmania” and the New York stock market crash of 1929 are historic examples of disasters magnified and hastened by the pressure of mass opinion. Neill describes these occurrences in detail and tells the reader how to avoid and recognize the dangers that “following the pack” can pose to the discerning investor.
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About the Author
Humphrey B. Neill (1977) spent his life observing and writing about the folly of group thinking that is all too prevalent throughout our society.
