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 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

In both cases with a limitation caused by the externality and fragmentariness of the facts and the need of interpreting them through our own conscious experiences.

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