Other members of the cast
From seashells to electrons
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
Getting to be everywhere you want to be
Getting cheaper and better
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
Cooperation, the tragedy of the commons, and the role of rules
The co-opetitives, the go-it-alones, and payment card ecosystems
And they don't take American Express
The card that is just like a check
Product variety and market segmentation
The evolution of the payment processing business
Who's who in the back room
Market structure and performance
Harm to competitors or harm to consumers?
Square pegs and round holes
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.
From sea shells to electrons
A land of local banks, awash in paper checks
The rise of payment cards
From gourmets to the masses
Everywhere you want to be, not everywhere they want to be
Chicken's eggs and other economic conundrums
Debit takes off (finally)
And they don't take cash.
