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Africa’s Misplaced Monetary AmbitionsDAKAR – Sub-Saharan African is in the grip of currency-union mania.
Some examples of social epidemics unsupported by any speculative markets can be found in Charles MacKay’s 1841 best seller Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.The book made some historical bubbles famous: the Mississippi bubble 1719-20, the South Sea Company Bubble 1711-20, and the tulip mania of the 1630’s.
It is an arresting assertion, given the tax-cut mania that has prevailed in these societies for the past 30 years, but Diamond and Saez’s logic is clear.
Much of the mania that led to the bubble economy was based on exploiting investor psychology.
Olympian EconomicsLONDON – As Olympic mania swept the world in recent weeks, it transported the host country, Great Britain, to a rare display of public exultation.
Instead of engaging in bitterness and spy mania, it is time for Russia to find its "place under the capitalist sun."
This is the context in which the rise of cryptocurrencies – the latest explosion of monetary mania – should be understood.
Hungary and other Central European countries have sealed their borders, and right-wing political parties across Europe have stoked anti-Muslim mania.
And yet, there is something odd about the European mania for a black American politician, even as we all know that a black president or prime minister (let alone one whose middle name is Hussein) is still unthinkable in Europe.
But many manifestations of mental disorders – such as the increased energy of mania, the euphoria of intoxication for the addict, or the smug satisfaction of the individual with a personality disorder – may not always be viewed that way.
The most important thing to note is that there was no extrapolation mania in Beijing.
Chris Watling of Longview Economics compares China’s property market today to the Dutch tulip mania that peaked in 1637.
The Stable-Coin MythBERKELEY – While the mania for cryptocurrencies may have peaked, new units continue to be announced, seemingly by the day.
Today’s “coin mania” is not unlike the railway mania at the dawn of the industrial revolution in the mid-nineteenth century.
Once a mania gets underway, the temptation to join is simply too strong.
The Drug War's FailuresIf we're lucky, our grandchildren will recall the global war on drugs of the late 20th and early 21st century as some bizarre mania to which only past generations could succumb.
As an expressive act of religious mania, organized hatred is rooted in a collective revelation of divine order and the duties arising from it, along with the promise of eternal reward for those who are unconditionally committed to fulfilling God's plan.
And the buyback mania is getting worse, including at companies like Apple, where falling innovation is not unrelated to the failure to reinvest.
But as the cultural historian Anne Goldgar reminds us, Mackay neglected to mention that the mania coincided with the exceptionally high mortality of the plague, which was spread by the armies fighting the Thirty Years’ War.
The plague hit the Netherlands in 1635, and reached its peak in the city of Haarlem between August and November 1636, which is precisely when the tulip mania took off.
This stirred in him the whole of that unknown terror, the hereditary ill, the long ancestry of drunkenness, no longer tolerating a drop of alcohol without falling into homicidal mania.
It arose from his bowels and was beating in his head like a hammer, a sudden mania of murder, a need to taste blood.
This short dialogue reveals that in my mania for the Nautilus, I was turning into the spitting image of its commander.
He showed him many others, even to doing errands for him at Rouen; and the book of a novelist having made the mania for cactuses fashionable, Leon bought some for Madame Bovary, bringing them back on his knees in the "Hirondelle," pricking his fingers on their hard hairs.
She is so finiky about her pleasures; and, besides, she has a mania for prawns."
She jumped up with a start; but sometimes he had to wait, for Charles had a mania for chatting by the fireside, and he would not stop.
Madame Bovary senior found nothing to censure except perhaps this mania of knitting jackets for orphans instead of mending her own house-linen; but, harassed with domestic quarrels, the good woman took pleasure in this quiet house, and she even stayed there till after Easter, to escape the sarcasms of old Bovary, who never failed on Good Friday to order chitterlings.
It was a want, a mania, a pleasure carried to such an extent that if she said she had the day before walked on the right side of a road, one might know she had taken the left.
They have a mania for starting serious discussions.
You live in the house,' said the Academician, coming to a standstill, 'and you don't know her mania?
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