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Market bubbles and sonic attacks: Mass hysterias will never go away

  • Written by Barry Markovsky, Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina
imageWere U.S. diplomats at the embassy in Cuba stricken by a mass delusion?AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa

Ancient and quaint seem the days of witch crazes, demon scares and tulip manias. Instances of mass hysteria may strike you as rare events in modern advanced societies. But such outbreaks are products of their times. They’re still around today, just...

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