The individualized nature of opportunity cost.

James Buchanan argued that opportunity cost is subject to the perspective of the individual rather than a universally agreed upon value.

Buchanan’s groundbreaking work in Cost and Choice explores opportunity cost theory in a revolutionary way. Though the Austrian School of economists enunciated similar views of cost decades before Buchanan, he advances his theories by attempting to integrate his views into the orthodox classical and neoclassical framework.

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