Paying with plastic : the digital revolution in buying and borrowing /
"In Paying with Plastic, David Evans and Richard Schmalensee provide a nontechnical distillation of their years of research on the economic, technological, and institutional forces that have shaped the payment card industry. They show how competition works in an industry that does not nearly fi...
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
MIT Press,
c1999.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Plastic Cards
- 2. From Sea Shells to Electrons
- 3. A Land of Local Banks, Awash in Paper Checks
- 4. The Rise of Payment Cards
- 5. From Gourmets to the Masses
- 6. Everywhere You Want to Be, Not Everywhere They Want to Be
- 7. Chickens, Eggs, and Other Economic Conundrums
- 8. System Wars
- 9. Issuer Brawls
- 10. Puzzles and Paradoxes
- 11. The Antitrust Wars
- 12. Debit Takes Off (Finally)
- 13. And They Don't Take Cash.