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I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.
Matthew Yglesias

Meaning of "externalities" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXTERNALITIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXTERNALITIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Externalities is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXTERNALITIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Externality

In economics, an externality is the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit. For example, manufacturing activities that cause air pollution impose health and clean-up costs on the whole society, whereas the neighbors of an individual who chooses to fire-proof his home may benefit from a reduced risk of a fire spreading to their own houses. If external costs exist, such as pollution, the producer may choose to produce more of the product than would be produced if the producer were required to pay all associated environmental costs. If there are external benefits, such as in public safety, less of the good may be produced than would be the case if the producer were to receive payment for the external benefits to others. For the purpose of these statements, overall cost and benefit to society is defined as the sum of the imputed monetary value of benefits and costs to all parties involved. Thus, unregulated markets in goods or services with significant externalities generate prices that do not reflect the full social cost or benefit of their transactions; such markets are therefore inefficient.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXTERNALITIES

external
External Affairs
external auditor
external degree
external ear
external examiner
external relation
external respiration
external spline
external student
external trade
external-combustion engine
externalisation
externalism
externalist
externality
externalization
externalize
externally
externat

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXTERNALITIES

abilities
activities
amenities
authorities
capabilities
celebrities
cities
communities
disabilities
entities
facilities
humanities
minorities
opportunities
parties
possibilities
qualities
quantities
responsibilities
universities
utilities

Synonyms and antonyms of externalities in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «externalities» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXTERNALITIES

Find out the translation of externalities to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of externalities from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «externalities» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

外部性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

externalidades
570 millions of speakers

English

externalities
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बाहरी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العوامل الخارجية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

внешние
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

externalidades
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাহ্যিকতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

externalités
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

luaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Externalitäten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

外部性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

외부
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Eksternalitas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngoại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெளிப்படைத்தன்மைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बाह्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dışsallıkları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esternalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zewnętrzne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зовнішні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

externalități
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξωτερικότητες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eksternaliteite
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

externa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

eksternaliteter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of externalities

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXTERNALITIES»

The term «externalities» is regularly used and occupies the 64.205 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of externalities
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXTERNALITIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «externalities» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «externalities» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about externalities

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2 QUOTES WITH «EXTERNALITIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word externalities.
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Sri Aurobindo
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Matthew Yglesias
I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXTERNALITIES»

Discover the use of externalities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to externalities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods
This book presents an updated and expanded discussion of theoretical treatment of externalities (i.e. uncompensated interdependencies), public goods, and club goods.
Richard Cornes, 1996
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Migration and the Externalities of European Integration
While previous scholarship has tended to overlook the consequences of Europeanization on actors outside the EU this work scrutinizes the foreign policy dimension in EU migration policies and highlights the Union's complex role as an ...
Sandra Lavenex, Emek M. Uçarer, 2003
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Knowledge Externalities, Innovation Clusters and Regional ...
This book begins with a theoretical examination of regional innovation systems, agglomeration economics and knowledge spillovers, before going on to examine the same concepts within an empirical framework.
Jordi Surin~ach, Rosina Moreno, 2007
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Convergence Clubs and Spatial Externalities: Models and ...
Do dynamic externalities, in the form of technology creation, adoption and spatial agglomeration shape the pattern of regional growth in Europe?
Stilianos Alexiadis, 2012
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Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture
Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U.S.
W. C. Harris, 2009
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Transport, Welfare and Externalities: Replacing the Polluter ...
Too often economists are too obsessed with the mathematical modelling of their ideas and insufficiently concerned with the applications. This book constitutes a major and refreshing exception to that trend.
Dieter Schmidtchen, 2010
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Urban Dynamics and Urban Externalities
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Takahiro Miyao, Yoshitsugu Kanemoto, 1987
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Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities: Urban ...
This book discusses the innovative research instruments developed and employed in the Netherlands, examining their strengths and weaknesses and comparing them with classic environmental planning policy methods.
Professor Gert De Roo, Dr Jelger Visser, Dr Christian Zuidema, 2012
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Regional Externalities
The book offers practical and theoretical insights in regional externalities. Regional externalities are a specific subset of externalities that can be defined as externalities where space plays a dominant role.
Wim Heijman, 2007
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Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomeration and Externalities: ...
Authors Country Absorptive Capacity Effect on FDI Externalities Haddad and Low tech versus high tech industries Positive FDI externalities in low tech industries Harrison Morocco (1993) Interaction variable FDI and Technology Gap Positive ...
Dr Jacob A Jordaan, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXTERNALITIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term externalities is used in the context of the following news items.
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Markets uncertain: Stay put, play long, say experts
"How it pans out for Indian markets would fall down to quite a few externalities. The markets have already come to grips to the fact that the ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
2
'Road tax' rears its ugly head again for England's cyclists
Balancing this are the so-called externalities of motoring, the indirect costs. A 2012 study by transport academics at Dresden Technical ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Could tax breaks be on the agenda for big oil companies? | World …
All that without the devastating externalities of oil spills and climate change.” Having fallen foul of falling oil prices and the looming prospect of ... «World Finance, Jul 15»
4
Richardson: Weatherill keeps faith, but can voters?
South Australia is facing the same externalities and pressures that plenty of other economies are, just we're more exposed to it. There are long ... «InDaily, Jul 15»
5
Seattle Proposes a Gun Tax That Could Make Wonks Swoon
101 professors smile: They remedy externalities, costs incurred on society by individuals who wouldn't otherwise pick up the bill. Greg Mankiw ... «The Trace, Jul 15»
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Calls for direct trucking charges
... trauma are typically higher for road use but are not priced to take account of the externalities associated with the provision of freight services. «MacroBusiness, Jul 15»
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New report unveils pathway to affordable, sustainable energy in …
Renewable energy technologies are already fully competitive with conventional power solutions, even if so-called “externalities” are not ... «solarserver.com, Jul 15»
8
Why Transportation Costs Are Out of Line
Another justification for subsidizing a private good is that it offers positive externalities—benefits to society as a whole. An example is education. «urbanmilwaukee, Jul 15»
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Internal Documents Show Fossil Fuel Industry Has Been Aware of …
... a request for comment by an Ohio University ethics professor about how corporations often fail to account for "externalities" such as pollution. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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How Will Ant-Man Fit Into the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Firstly, Tony may have bought the building, but in all likelihood, he won't be involved in all of the negative externalities his actions caused (tram ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»

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