The Bewildering Lack of Data on History's Other Great Manias, Crashes and Panics - David Harding

The transcript discusses the speaker's interest in collecting historical data, particularly to illustrate financial bubbles from 1825. The speaker believes this is an underexplored theme in history, focusing on human behavior related to money and markets. They aim to update Charles Mackay's work on manias, panics, and crashes, and explore wider phenomena like herd behavior. Financial markets are seen as a convenient laboratory for studying human behavior, with the speaker's expertise in markets, data, and numbers.

What examples of historical phenomena does the speaker suggest could be included in the study of market behaviors?

How do financial markets serve as a laboratory for studying human behavior according to the speaker?