externality

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"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

In short, electric vehicle production just doesn’t look like a network externality business.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

The externality that’s unique to corn and soy is the obesity and disease that result from eating way too many foods that contain the industrial ingredients derived from them.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022

It does not, however, reproduce within itself the externality as that external exists for itself.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)