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Payment instrument choice: the case of prepaid cards [PDF]

The costs and benefits to payment system participants can differ depending on which payment mechanism is used. The authors specifically explore the costs and benefits of prepaid card applications versus other payment instruments, such as cash, checks ...
Victor Lubasi, Sujit Chakravorti
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Equal before time: on the sensory suspension of accumulated time in Sichuan, China Égaux devant le temps : suspension sensorielle du temps accumulé au Sichuan (Chine)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
wiley   +1 more source

Medical Credit Cards for Self-Pay and Insurance-Based Out-of-Pocket Costs in Academic Plastic Surgery. [PDF]

Ann Surg Open
Shah SA, Dong AJ, Chopra Z, Hales M, Lagu T, Ko JH, Berlin NL.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How do you pay? The role of incentives at the point-of-sale [PDF]

This paper uses discrete-choice models to quantify the role of consumer socioeconomic characteristics, payment instrument attributes, and transaction features on the probability of using cash, debit card, or credit card at the point-of-sale.
Arango, Carlos, Huynh, Kim P., Sabetti, Leonard   +2 more
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of Medical Credit Cards by Specialty. [PDF]

JAMA Health Forum
Bruch JD, Fang CC, Cliff BQ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Credit manual of commercial laws for.

, 1996
Description based on: 26th ed. (1934)Title varies slightly.Mode of access: Internet.Vols.
National Association of Credit Management., National Association of Credit Men (U.S.)   +1 more
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Swipe now, regret later? How credit cards reduce the appeal of safe choices. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Hung HH, Cheng YH, Chuang SC, Wang TM.
europepmc   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source