externality
Example Sentences
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"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
“For a negative externality like climate, carrots are always going to be more expensive than sticks,” says Roberton Williams III, a University of Maryland environmental economist.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021
Nothing was more significant of the externality of these debates than the fact that they seemed to ignore everything that we had cared about before.
From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.
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