by Ronald J. Mann
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521866111
PRICE: $65.00
PAGES: 250 pp
PUBLICATION DATE: September 2006
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This book, published in September 2006, provides a comprehensive look at the policy implications of credit cards, weaving together empirical analysis, historical information about the rise and global deployment of credit cards and debit cards, and incisive analysis of the policy implications of their use. This page, still under construction, provides a variety of resources related to the book.
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Reviews
"Mann offers a fresh, new perspective on credit cards. In a book that is deeply researched and based on careful analysis of previously-unpublished data, he compares the risks of plastic with other forms of payment to arrive at startling conclusions about the effect of credit cards on the American consumer..."
Elizabeth Warren,
Harvard Law School
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Winner of 2006 annual book prize from the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers
"This fascinating book delivers a rigorous and illuminating appraisal of the role played by credit and debit cards in the commercial life
of the USA and other developed economies..."
Professor Ian F. Fletcher, Herbert Smith Chair of International Commercial Law, University College London
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"This excellent monograph covers a lot of ground and provides the reader with a lucid description and powerful analysis of the development of credit and debit cards in North America and overseas, their interaction with merchants and consumers, the negative features of contemporary credit card issuers’ practices, and the externalities created by unregulated credit card contracts..."
Jacob Ziegel, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Toronto
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“[T]he textbook of choice for students and industry professionals studying the expanding electronic payments market.”
Cardline
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“Highly recommend[ed]. * * * It educates and illuminates about the payment card industry in ways that haven't been so well explained before. And, by chewing on the key issues and proposing tentative conclusions, Mann helps you gain perspective about the strengths and weaknesses of the industry today.”
Payments News
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“Mann gives us tremendous insight (empirically and otherwise) into * * * the payment card love triangle.”
Payments Intelligence
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