Tides in the Affairs of Men: An Approach to the Appraisal of Economic Change

Reprint of the 1939 edition published by the Macmillian Company. One of the most important books written on planetary influence, cycles theory, and speculation, this volume offers an alternative perspective on the causes of mass psychology and stock price movement.

Contents:

PART I: THE DECENNIAL PATTERN AND OTHER PERIODICITIES: 1. Biological Cycles and Stock Price Movements; 2. Corroborative Testimony of Decennial Recurrence; 3. Tides in Mass Psychology; 4. Speculative Psychology; 5. The Weather; 6. Graphic Analysis - The III Years; 7. Graphic Analysis, 1881-1936; 8. Seasonal and Decennial Tendencies; 9. A Nine Year Period;

PART II: ECONOMIC RESPONSE TO SOLAR CHANGE: An Hypothesis of Solar-Economic Relationships and Their Measure in Terms of Weather Data: 10. Anthropologists, Physicians and Psychologists; 11. Meteorologists and Others; 12. Rainfall and Stock Price Movements - Same Year; 13. Rainfall Deviation and Stock Price Movements - Same Year; 14. Sun Spot Cycles - Rainfall and Stock Price Movements - Same Year; 15. Weather as a Measure of Solar-Economic Change; 16. Rainfall and Stock Price Movements - Following Year; 17. Effects of Seasonal Changes in Solar Radiation and Weather; 18. Meteorological Appraisal of Probabilities - 1937; 19. 1937 (Continued) - Sun, Weather and Stock Prices; 20. Pig Iron, Cotton, Commodity Prices; Bibliography