The delusions of crowds: why people go mad in groups

Prelude

Joachim's children

Believers and rogues

Briefly rich

George Hudson, capitalist hero

Miller's run

Winston Churchill's excellent adventure in monetary policy

Sunshine Charlie misses the point

Apocalypse cow

God's sword

Entrepreneurs of the Apocalypse

Dispensationalist catastrophes: potential and real

Rapture fiction

Capitalism's philanthropists

Hucksters of the digital age

Mahdis and caliphs

Epilogue.