Mackay covers many types of delusions, among them financial manias like the South Sea Company bubble of 1711-1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719-1720, and the Dutch tulip mania of the early seventeenth century. He is best known for his classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowd, reprinted herein. He moved to the Illustrated London News in 1848 becoming Editor in 1852. Coming to London in 1834, he engaged in journalism, working for the Morning Chronicle from 1835-1844 and then became Editor of The Glasgow Argus. He was educated at the Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but spent much of his early life in France. His mother died shortly after his birth and his father was by turns a naval officer and a foot soldier. Charles Mackay (1814-1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer.
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