Plastic money : constructing markets for credit cards in eight postcommunist countries / Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva.
2014
HG3755.7 .R663 2014eb
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Title
Plastic money : constructing markets for credit cards in eight postcommunist countries / Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva.
Author
Rona-Tas, Akos.
ISBN
9780804789592 (electronic book)
9780804768573
9780804768573
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 318 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
HG3755.7 .R663 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
332.7/65091717
Summary
In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. In other parts of the world, however, the establishment of a ""credit-card economy"" has not been easy. In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card? How do markets convince people to use cards, make their transactions visible to authorities, assume the potential risk of fraud, and pay to use their own money? Why should merchants agree to pay extra if customers use cards instead of cash?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Guseva, Alya, 1974-
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Table of Contents
Paying with cards
The transition from a communist to a market economy
Payment puzzles
Credit puzzles
The construction of card markets in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic
Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria
Vietnam and China.
The transition from a communist to a market economy
Payment puzzles
Credit puzzles
The construction of card markets in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic
Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria
Vietnam and China.