Swiped: The Political Economy of Debit Card Fees

There's a lot more than meets the eye in the argument between merchants and banks over who pays debit card swipe fees.

Appeared in: Volume 09, Number 2 | Published on: October 10, 2013

Sean H. Vanatta, a graduate student at Princeton University, is writing a dissertation on the business and regulatory history of the bank credit card industry.

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