sunk cost

Summary

sunk cost ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,340 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• sunk cost's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2004006683^[2].
• sunk cost's subclass of is recorded as monetary cost^[3].
• sunk cost's part of is recorded as availability heuristic^[4].
• sunk cost's opposite of is recorded as prospective cost^[5].
• sunk cost's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0p_4p^[6].
• sunk cost's described by source is recorded as Maot^[7].
• sunk cost's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as sunk-costs^[8].
• sunk cost's STW Thesaurus for Economics ID is recorded as 19432-4^[9].
• sunk cost's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as sunk_cost^[10].
• sunk cost's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 79179835^[11].
• sunk cost's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007561525705171^[12].
• sunk cost's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C79179835^[13].
• sunk cost's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 29055^[14].
• sunk cost's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as nevozvratnye-izderzhki-1b7f83^[15].
• sunk cost's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/52b4b222-265a-4e79-87a1-b8ee9543b5bb^[16].

Why It Matters

sunk cost ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,340 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[17] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[18]