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Credit Card Industry
The concept of a general purpose credit card originated in 1949, when Frank McNamara dined in a New York restaurant and discovered that he could not pay for his meal (Evans and Schmalensee 1999). By the 1980s ...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Credit Card Industry
The concept of a general purpose credit card originated in 1949, when Frank McNamara dined in a New York restaurant and discovered that he could not pay for his meal (Evans and Schmalensee 1999). By the 1980s ...
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