Paying with plastic : the digital revolution in buying and borrowing /
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Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2005.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Plastic cards
- The star
- The main characters
- Other members of the cast
- Behind the stage
- The foreign cast
- The thirteen acts
- From seashells to electrons
- The evolution of money
- Buy now, pay later
- 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
- 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
- From Sardi's to Saks.com
- Getting to be everywhere you want to be
- Getting cheaper and better
- Not everywhere yet
- Paying for plastic
- It takes two to tango
- Multisided platform economics 101
- Business models in multisided platform markets
- Multisided platforms and price setting in payment cards
- Co-opetition and the payment card ecosystem
- The co-opetitives
- Cooperation, the tragedy of the commons, and the role of rules
- The co-opetitives, the go-it-alones, and payment card ecosystems
- System wars
- Weapons of war
- And they don't take American Express
- Master the possibilities
- The card that is just like a check
- Issuer brawls
- Who are the players?
- Product variety and market segmentation
- Competitive strategies
- Market structure
- Market performance
- Debit issuance
- Backroom battles
- The evolution of the payment processing business
- Who's who in the back room
- Market structure and performance
- 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
- On the brink
- Technologies from the exotic to the merely smart
- E-commerce, e-payments, and m-commerce
- Shaking up the marketplace
- And they don't take cash.