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* in non-financial analysis, especially historical, the sunk cost fallacy occurs when actors "double down" on a bad decision or situation
* in non-financial analysis, especially historical, the sunk cost fallacy occurs when actors "double down" on a bad decision or situation
** doubling down has frequently occurred in politics and warfare
** doubling down has frequently occurred in politics and warfare
* an example of the Sunk cost fallacy was the "Concorde fallacy"
** the British and French governments decided to keep spending money on the supersonic Concorde airliner despite having already lost huge amounts of money on it
* related to Loss Aversion
* related to Loss Aversion