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Paying with plastic : the digital revolution in buying and borrowing
Title:
Paying with plastic : the digital revolution in buying and borrowing
Author:
Evans, David S.
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Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
xii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
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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ISBN:
9780262050623
Format :
Book