The original book on market manias. Mackay's chronicle of the Dutch Tulip Mania, the South Sea Bubble, and the Mississippi Scheme remains the most vivid account of how collective delusion drives markets to extremes. Victorian prose, but the human dynamics are identical to every modern bubble from dot-com to crypto. The specific technology changes; the madness never does.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.