<p>A kind of culmination of the material on maguffins, loss aversion, and the management of longing.  The sunk costs of antes.  The symbolic value of the last cigarette before you quit.  That last cigarette being a kind of maguffin which allows for making it satisfy both the desire to smoke and the desire to quit.</p>

A kind of culmination of the material on maguffins, loss aversion, and the management of longing. The sunk costs of antes. The symbolic value of the last cigarette before you quit. That last cigarette being a kind of maguffin which allows for making it satisfy both the desire to smoke and the desire to quit.

<p>A kind of culmination of the material on maguffins, loss aversion, and the management of longing.&nbsp; The sunk costs of antes.&nbsp; The symbolic value of the last cigarette before you quit.&nbsp; That last cigarette being a kind of maguffin which allows for making it satisfy both the desire to smoke and the desire to quit.</p>

Imagining Money XXXV Thurs 4-18-19 maguffins and the management of longing

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