Description
From the Tulip Mania of seventeenth-century Holland to the Online Shopping Frenzy of the digital age, When Markets Go Mad traces humanity’s oldest addiction—the thrill of chasing what glitters, even as reason fades. This book dissects a world intoxicated by its own creations: extravagant weddings that outshine galaxies, social networks that script our lives, from Sir Isaac Newton losing his fortune in the South Sea Bubble to George Soros robbing the Bank of England. Centuries apart, the obsession remains unchanged—to own, to rise, to outshine. In a world where enemy countries play cricket just after the war, H-1B visas tighten borders, Bezos builds kingdoms of code, and Zuckerberg frowns at Arattai, this book holds up a mirror to our collective frenzy. Across every age and empire, one truth endures: the faces of frenzy change, but the madness is forever human. Fast, cinematic, and unsettlingly real, When Markets Go Mad is a mirror to the age when wealth, vanity, and technology converge into a single, unstoppable obsession: the human hunger to own the next big frenzy.