| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 318 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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? In Plastic Money, Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva tell the story of ... |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Credit cards -- Former communist countries.
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Credit cards. |
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Former communist countries. |
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Consumer credit -- Former communist countries.
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Consumer credit. |
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Post-communism -- Economic aspects.
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Post-communism -- Economic aspects. |
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Post-communism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Guseva, Alya, 1974- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rona-Tas, Akos. Plastic money. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014] 9780804768573 (DLC) 2013042646 (OCoLC)861966449 |
| ISBN |
9780804789592 (electronic book) |
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0804789592 (electronic book) |
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9780804768573 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804768579 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804768580 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0804768587 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40023297880 |
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