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

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

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the digital revolution in buying and borrowing

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David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee

Instantiates

• Paying with plastic : the digital revolution in buying and borrowing

Publication

• Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2005
• Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, �2005

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-352) and index

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier.

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent.

Contents

• More than money -- Dining on the cuff -- 1958 -- The
• birth of co-opetition -- Regulation and stagflation -- The
• 1980s' spending and debt spree -- The
• 1990s and the rise of the debit card -- The
• golden anniversary and beyond -- 4.
• From gourmets to the masses -- The
• growth and diffusion of payment cards among U.S. households -- Using payment cards to execute transactions -- Credit card lending : joys, sorrows, and controversies -- Credit cards and entrepreneurship -- Room for growth -- 5.
• From Sardi's to saks.com -- Getting to be everywhere you want to be -- Getting cheaper and better -- Not everywhere yet -- Paying for plastic -- 6.
• It takes two to tango -- Multisided platforms economics 101 -- Business models in multisided platform markets -- Multisided platforms and price setting in payment cards -- 7.
• Co-opetition and the payment card ecosystem -- The
• 1.
• co-opetitives -- Cooperation, the tragedy of the commons, and the role of rules -- The
• co-opetitives, the go-it-alones, and payment card ecosystems -- 8.
• System wars -- Weapons of war -- And they don't take American Express -- Master the possibilities -- The
• card that is just like a check -- 9.
• Issuer brawls -- Who are the players? -- Product variety and market segmentation -- Competitive strategies -- Market structure -- Market performance -- Debit issuance -- 10.
• Backroom battles -- The
• evolution of the payment processing business -- Who's who in the back room -- Market structure and performance -- 11. The
• antitrust wars -- Harm to competitors or harm to consumers? -- Who's in, who's out? -- Who pays for plastic? -- Square pegs and round holes -- 12.
• On the brink -- Technologies from the exotic to the merely smart -- E-commerce, e-payments, and m-commerce -- Shaking up the marketplace -- 13.
• And they don't take cash
• Plastic cards -- The
• star -- The
• main characters -- Other members of the cast -- Behind the stage -- The
• foreign cast -- The
• thirteen acts -- 2.
• From seashells to electrons -- The
• evolution of money -- Buy now, pay later -- 3.

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FIEb1333072x

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23 cm.

Edition

Second edition.

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xiii, 367 pages

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9780262550581

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rdamedia.

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• n

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illustrations

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u226230

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(OCoLC)55846242