Edward Bellamy and Credit Cards

[Michael Perelman]

Someone on PKT a few months ago wrote that Sumerian tablets functioned like
credit cards.

Jim Westrich wrote:


> One of the most accurate predictions in Edward Bellamy's *Looking Backward*
> (1887) turned out to be the use of credit cards [no global socialism and
> I'm not sure if women's bust sizes are 11/2 inches larger].  Who was the
> first to propose/predict credit cards?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
> "I've seen the future and it hurts."
>
>         -The Very Reverend Larry Love

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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