‘Carry Your Credit in Your Pocket’: The Early History of the Credit Card at Bank of America and Chase Manhattan

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 315-354

  Wolters, Timothy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 85010677065     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: 14672235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1467222700000550     Document Type: Article

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