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Escalation and De-escalation of Commitment in Response to Sunk Costs: The Role of Budgeting in Mental Accounting

Chip Heath

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Key concepts: Sunk costs, Escalation of commitment, Mental accounting, Economics, Incentive, Set (abstract data type), Investment (military), Value (mathematics)

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