From Mishkin (2018), pp. 60: In person, cigarettes are sometimes used among inmates as a form of payment. How is it possible for cigarettes to solve the “double coincidence of wants” problem even if a prisoner does not smoke?

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From Mishkin (2018), pp. 60: In person, cigarettes are sometimes used among inmates as a form of payment. How is it possible for cigarettes to solve the “double coincidence of wants” problem even if a prisoner does not smoke?
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