Paying with Plastic – The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing 2e - Hardcover

Evans, David S; Schmalensee, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262050773 ISBN 13: 9780262050777

Publisher: MIT Press, 2005

Synopsis

The payment card business has evolved from its inception in the 1950s as a way to handle payment for expense-account lunches (Diners Club card) in today's complex sprawling industry that drives trillions of dollars in transaction volume each year.

About this title

Review

"An excellent treatment of the payment card industry's evolving structure and conduct."-- Daniel Pope, "Enterprise & Society"

About the Author

David S. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competition Policy Practice at LECG LLC and part of Market Platform Dynamics, a management consulting firm that focuses on strategic analysis and product design for platform-based firms.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0262050773
• ISBN 13: 9780262050777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 360