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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

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

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

With touch, there is reproduction of externality, but the ideality of the reproduction is not so complete as in the other forms.

From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett

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 turns out that the simple obligation of going to a workplace, shop, or school every day brought positive externalities that are vanishing from our lives.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2024

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

The deeper life of thought and feeling is largely covered up with conventionalities and externalities.

From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry


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