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

Published: April 19, 2019, 4:42 p.m.

b'A kind of culmination of the material on maguffins, loss aversion, and the management of longing.\\xa0 The sunk costs of antes.\\xa0 The symbolic value of the last cigarette before you quit.\\xa0 That last cigarette being a kind of maguffin which allows for making it satisfy both the desire to smoke and the desire to quit.'