externality

Example Sentences

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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 short, electric vehicle production just doesn’t look like a network externality business.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

“For a negative externality like climate, carrots are always going to be more expensive than sticks,” says Roberton Williams III, a University of Maryland environmental economist.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021

This externality, in other words, represents not itself, but the soul, of which it is the sign.

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