'Soon after his release, Radford described the system that developed in a classic paper entitled “The Economic Organization of a POW Camp,” a write-up that's much appreciated by undergraduates everywhere for its skill at explaining the mysteries of monetary systems. What interested Radford the most was the way that cigarrettes, as a means of exchange, were subject to all of the fluctuations of normal currency.'
http://books.google.com/books?id=8t8CEnOhQeEC&pg=RA2-PA306&lpg=RA2-PA306&dq=cigarettes+prison+currency&source=web&ots=WPyHkLb9lV&sig=9S-5k7J-FQwA-hVUrNO-QJnNmt4
http://caracaschronicles.blogspot.com/2002/09/reinventing-hyperinflation-wheel.html
'Soon after his release, Radford described the system that developed in a classic paper entitled “The Economic Organization of a POW Camp,” a write-up that's much appreciated by undergraduates everywhere for its skill at explaining the mysteries of monetary systems. What interested Radford the most was the way that cigarrettes, as a means of exchange, were subject to all of the fluctuations of normal currency.'