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Paying with plastic : the digital revolution in buying and borrowing / David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee.

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Main Author: Evans, David S. (David Sparks), 1954-
Other Authors: Schmalensee, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Credit cards > United States.
Bank credit cards > United States.
Electronic funds transfers > United States.
Electronic commerce > United States.
Consumer credit > United States.
Digital currency > United States.
Digital currency.
Bank credit cards.
Consumer credit.
Credit cards.
Electronic commerce.
Electronic funds transfers.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Plastic cards
  • From sea shells to electrons
  • A land of local banks, awash in paper checks
  • The rise of payment cards
  • From gourmets to the masses
  • Everywhere you want to be, not everywhere they want to be
  • Chicken's eggs and other economic conundrums
  • System wars
  • Issuer brawls
  • Puzzles and paradoxes
  • The antitrust wars
  • Debit takes off (finally)
  • And they don't take cash.

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