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Rule describes Microsoft's rise to prominence as being a result of an economic phenomenon known as "network externalities."
Indeed, the phrase "increasing returns" appears just once in Cassidy's article and then merely to say that Arthur had used the term while others refer to network externalities.
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.
Nevertheless, this calculation provides a rough indication of the relative magnitudes of environmental externalities and cost savings.
The idea that Cassidy refers to is that of "increasing returns"--which says that goods become cheaper the more of them you produce (and the closely related idea of "network externalities," which says that some products, like fax machines, become more useful the more people use them).