social opportunity cost

Definitions

Economics

  • noun the opportunity cost to the society of making a certain good or service, at the expense of using the factor of production for a different good or service

Health Economics

  • (written as Social Opportunity Cost)
    Opportunity cost viewed from the standpoint of all members of a society rather than that of a particular group or decision-maker.
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