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  • n  the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior

  • If government were doing that sensibly, it would force carbon producers to internalize the negative externality of carbon (something our current government doesn't do), just as it .
  • Positive externality: Maureen Dowd and Chris Matthews simultaneously explode upon announcement.
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  • Al Gore in AFP
    The problem is CO2 is completely invisible to the economy. The economists call it an externality which means 'forget about it' and yet what we're forgetting about is posing a great unprecedented threat to the future of our civilization,Gore...
  • Bruce Schneier in ZDNet UK
    The end result is that insecure software is common,argued Schneier. "But because users, not software manufacturers, pay the price, nothing improves. Making software manufacturers liable fixes this externality"
  • Jean-Claude Trichet in FXstreet.com The Foreign Exchange Market
    Speaking at the China-Europe Business Meeting in Frankfurt, Trichet said an undervalued exchange rate can pose "a negative externality to producers in other countries."

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