Example sentences for: externalities

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

  • 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.

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

  • In an attempt to distinguish those public purposes that are tolerable from those that aren't, Murray posits that, to be valid, public goods either have to be "nonexclusive"--interventions from which everyone benefits--or else must arise to counter "externalities," costs passed on to others that, in practical terms, cannot be compensated, as in the case of the chemical incinerator that pollutes the air.

  • First, if the environmental externalities represent the endpoint of our analysis, it is clear that resolving uncertainties related to mortality will be more important than resolving uncertainties related to morbidity.

  • Nevertheless, this calculation provides a rough indication of the relative magnitudes of environmental externalities and cost savings.


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