Monday, December 04, 2006

Sunk Costs

Maybe this sounds somewhat heartless, but, when setting Iraq policy, we must ignore the costs we've already sunk and calmly assess the relative marginal benefits and marginal costs of different policy options. The only role for the past in those calculations is providing information about the distribution of expected benefits and costs.

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