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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

Amid all this military posturing, where countries are blowing up their satellites to show that they can, it seems like there’s a negative externality, which is all the debris that gets created.

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2021

Irrationality and externality can not be the last truth about things.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

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

Preparation for these varying externalities requires supply-chain middlemen and product sellers to anticipate consequential cost increases down the line—and implement them sooner than later, in order to cover their margins.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

Advocates of true cost accounting assert that its more nuanced approach will address shortcomings in traditional cost-benefit analysis – particularly, failing to consider social and health externalities in depth.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2024

It is "the survival of the fittest" "For a' That and a' That" is a poem that wipes out the superficial value put on money and other externalities.

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt




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