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
There was in it a certain quality of externality that gained edge from the contrast with Mrs. Venables' all-reaching intimacy.
From The Furnace by Dame Rose Macaulay
How do you think about the potential externalities of AI, such as unemployment?
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
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
Analysts think environmental externalities may come under greater scrutiny for waste-to-energy projects selling offsets as the global carbon market evolves beyond the Clean Development Mechanism to a new U.N.-run program.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
If timber construction remains a high-end product, that’s both because it’s relatively new—and because the externalities of existing energy-guzzling construction are not properly priced.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023
As a rule, such externalities lie without the compass of prophecy, which, having in view the substance, refers, as to the way of its manifestation, to history.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
