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
As cause of our sensations and ground of our belief in externality, he substituted for an unintelligible material substance an equally unintelligible operation of divine power.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
How do you think about the potential externalities of AI, such as unemployment?
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 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
True cost accounting seeks to make those externalities visible.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2024
“The negative externalities of generative AI will be a critical topic for debate in 2024,” Havemeyer said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
It cannot be said that even Shakespeare escapes altogether from the ill effects of this Italianisation of all the externalities of the drama.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter
