The future of online money.
3/17/2003
As they face the shift from paper to electronic money, consumers and businesses will need to understand how electronic commerce is conducted on the Internet. Enter cybercash: fund-transfer systems routed through the Internet. Whether through credit card transactions, PayPal, or automated clearing houses, buying and selling on the Net means big business. Guttmann, a professor of economics at Hofstra University and an expert on the economics of money, breaks the book down into three salient parts: "Money and the Internet," "The Complexities of Cybercash," and "The Internet-based Economy."