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externality

[ek-ster-nal-i-tee] / ˌɛk stərˈnæl ɪ ti /


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Most people think of money as a macro phenomenon or externality.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

"In economics, we call that externality," she said.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

“We create prosperous and exclusive communities, but in so doing also create neighborhoods with concentrated despair — the externality of stockpiled opportunity.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Amid all this military posturing, where countries are blowing up their satellites to show that they can, it seems like there’s a negative externality, which is all the debris that gets created.

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2021

The actual soul with its sensation and its concrete self-feeling turned into habit, has implicitly realised the 'ideality' of its qualities; in this externality it has recollected and inwardised itself, and is infinite self-relation.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

How do you think about the potential externalities of AI, such as unemployment?

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

But those events tend to be intrinsic to business rather than externalities such as White House maneuvers or geopolitics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

It’s hard for them to survey the more intangible externalities of Pride, such as a surge in local restaurant bookings, bottled-water sales, or even temporary job creation.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2025

In traditional economics-speak, hidden costs are known as externalities – spillover effects from production that are caused by one party but paid for by another.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2024

In short, everything connected with the externalities of the vocations has been carefully analyzed, and sufficient reliable material has been gained, at least regarding certain local conditions.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg


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