How to Use externality in a Sentence

externality

noun
  • This means that the best policy is to make the externality visible in prices.
    Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The before and after that comes into such stark relief, thanks to an externality like war.
    Andy Meek, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
  • There will be negative externalities to that choice: teams who lose a best player to a hit-by-pitch will feel powerless, and the first team to throw at a player will have an upper hand.
    Gabriel Baumgaertner, SI.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • And all of them, from Facebook Inc’s perspective, would be mere externalities in its drive for attention.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Perhaps activists could get the market to price that externality in by nudging investors to divest.
    Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Even if pricing the negative carbon externality is key, the path to getting there might be via driving down the price of alternatives.
    Gernot Wagner, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • In the Army, the leader is always held responsible for the success or failure of a mission regardless of any externalities.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2017
  • No company’s main source of profit can be described with a straight face as a negative externality.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Thus, Singaporeans are asking why they are being held hostage by a minority, whose choice is placing a huge externality on the rest of the nation.
    Devadas Krishnadas, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Perhaps one of the most significant cases of externalities is the extensive use of the military draft.
    David R. Henderson, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
  • In many, however, a pickup truck, a freeze box, and a couple of rifles will get the job done — and without any of the negative externalities that mark the more modern, industrial approach.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • The negative externalities of creating domains for these people to play in are all too real.
    WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But there is an additional benefit to the rest of us – the positive externality – from the delivery.
    Leigh Osofsky, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
  • This focus on growth at all costs has led to negative externalities that the original founders of these companies either didn’t care about, or at least didn’t properly plan for.
    Sonny Tai, Quartz at Work, 2 Mar. 2020
  • But to me what’s actually unfair is all the externalities created by the shortage of parking.
    Curbed, 8 May 2023
  • This externality alone could wipe out a range of the benefits that bitcoin advocates imagine could result from the use of cryptocurrencies.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The negative externalities have real costs on our city.
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • 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.
    Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Green Tech Warning labels could combat the abstract nature of climate change and could draw attention to the externalities of fossil fuel usage.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2020
  • And there are some really interesting efforts to look at this, what's called a fiscal externality.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
  • The best way to reduce carbon emissions is to incorporate that externality into the market’s functions, rather than declaring that growth is the enemy.
    Robert Colvile, National Review, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Such a tax would dissuade people from burning fossil fuels by taxing them for the damage those emissions cause – the negative externality.
    Jim Krane, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2022
  • One way to deal with negative externalities is to impose a tax on the activity equivalent to those external costs.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • The reported ambiguity of the language has caused confusion among those who will be affected, and some have argued that preparing the new tax forms will open the door to other externalities.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • Economists and urban planners should rejoice because AVs mean that, for the first time, the unwelcome externalities associated with cars can be fully priced in.
    The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Some of the tech companies such as Microsoft and Facebook achieved their dominant status because of network externalities.
    Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Another is that the poor are a negative externality of the creative destruction of capitalism.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 7 Jan. 2022
  • And in classical economics, this is called an externality.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The product developer should first acknowledge or address the negative externalities that their product creates—like a pack of cigarettes having a warning sign on every box about the health risks the product poses.
    Mark Cloutier, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Nordhaus builds on a lifetime of work incorporating the concept of externalities into national income accounts and into conceptions of economic growth.
    William D. Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021

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