Sunk costs refer to
A. all the costs that a firm must incur in the process of production.
B. the quantities of a good that are given up to obtain one unit of another good.
C. the costs that change proportionately with a change in the output.
D. costs that were incurred in the past and cannot be recovered and thus should not affect current decisions.
Answer: D
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