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

“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

Our society has accepted these costs, he said — but with this stop sign camera, the District has charged for the externality in the hope of eliminating it.

From Washington Post • May 31, 2022

He was so far from having quelled the phantom “thing in itself,” that he treated matter in space as such a thing, and thus confused externality of space with externality to the mind.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various