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In prison, 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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In a barter system, this problem refers to the difficulty in finding two people who each have a good or service that the other wants. This is called a double coincidence of wants. Show more…
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