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This book was the first comprehensive treatment of credit cards in the global economy. The topic is timely not only because of the attention focused on cards as a contributor to the substantial rise in consumer borrowing, but also because of the role of cards in the recent retrenchment in the U.S. bankruptcy system. Relying on data from the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and Japan, Charging Ahead includes the first careful statistical analysis of the relation between the rise of credit card use and broader macroeconomic phenomena like consumer borrowing, savings, and bankruptcy. It also provides a broad narrative of how credit cards have come to be used so differently around the world. Finally, it sets out a detailed and coherent program for regulatory intervention grounded in both empirical analysis and the existing theoretical literature.

Credit cards. --- Credit cards --- Commercial law --- Cards, Charge --- Cards, Credit --- Charge cards --- Consumer credit --- Point-of-sale systems industry --- Charge accounts --- Law and legislation. --- Law --- General and Others

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Into the Red explores the emergence of a credit card market in post-Soviet Russia during the formative period from 1988 to 2007. In her analysis, Alya Guseva locates the dynamics of market building in the social structure, specifically the creative use of social networks. Until now, network scholars have overlooked the role that networks play in facilitating exchange in mass markets because they have exclusively focused on firm-to-firm or person-to-person ties. Into the Red demonstrates how networks that combine individuals and organizations help to build markets for mass consumption. The book is situated on the cutting edge of emerging interdisciplinary research, linking multiple layers of analysis with institutional evolution. Using an intricate framework, Guseva chronicles both the creation of a credit card market and the making of a mass consumer. These processes are placed in the context of the ongoing restructuring in postcommunist Russia and the expansion of Western markets and ideologies through the rest of the world.

Consumer credit - Russia (Federation). --- Credit cards --- Consumer credit --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Credit, Debt & Loans --- Consumer debt --- Cards, Charge --- Cards, Credit --- Charge cards --- Credit --- Point-of-sale systems industry --- Charge accounts

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Banks and banking --- Consumer credit --- Credit cards --- Debt --- E-books --- Indebtedness --- Finance --- Cards, Charge --- Cards, Credit --- Charge cards --- Point-of-sale systems industry --- Charge accounts --- Consumer debt --- Credit --- Agricultural banks --- Banking --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Financial institutions --- Money

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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 Gusev

Consumer credit -- Former communist countries. --- Credit cards -- Former communist countries. --- Post-communism -- Economic aspects. --- Credit cards --- Consumer credit --- Post-communism --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Credit, Debt & Loans --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects. --- Consumer debt --- Cards, Charge --- Cards, Credit --- Charge cards --- Postcommunism --- Credit --- Point-of-sale systems industry --- Charge accounts --- World politics --- Communism --- E-books

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Credit cards --- Debit cards --- Credit --- Borrowing --- Finance --- Money --- Loans --- Bank debit cards --- Cards, Debit --- Banks and banking --- Cards, Charge --- Cards, Credit --- Charge cards --- Consumer credit --- Point-of-sale systems industry --- Charge accounts --- Customer services --- E-books --- Credit cards. --- Debit cards. --- Credit.