Example sentences for: externalities

How can you use “externalities” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When economic values are assigned to the mortality and morbidity outcomes as described above, the environmental externalities averted through increased insulation amount to approximately $1.

  • The libertarian would talk about externalities, and about minimum regulation to avoid externalities, and about the value of common carriers, and the like.

  • Although the economic valuation of health endpoints is highly uncertain, we apply the central estimates used in the US EPA benefit-cost analyses [ 16 17 ] to illustrate the potential magnitude of externalities avoided in relation to the direct economic savings.

  • However frightening Bill Gates may seem or however unfair and imperfect the market phenomenon of network externalities may appear, do we really want antitrust lawyers and economists determining Internet standards?

  • Way back in 1890 he explained that concentrations of industry (yes, they existed before Silicon Valley--his prime example was the Sheffield cutlery district) can create a virtuous circle in which the availability of skilled labor, the presence of specialized suppliers, and the diffusion of knowledge . Increasing returns to consumption are probably less common, but can result among other things from "network externalities"--a bit of useful jargon for what happens when the usefulness of a product depends on how many other people possess something similar.


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