externality

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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

In the language of economics, the decision imposes an externality on the nation, which is exactly the kind of decision that states alone should not be making for other states.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2023

“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

Conceived as having the inward purpose of the subjective soul thus imposed upon it, the body is treated as an immediate externality and a barrier.

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