I think the obvious externality is cook-the-books rating agencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Two Views of Credit Default Swaps] Reference

“Because the externality is not fallen upon a few, easily-identifiable parties”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Persistence of Carbon Tax Advocates] Reference

Fanworks derive meaning from addressing gaps in the source, mysteries — externality is authenticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

That doesn’t mean there’s an externality – precisely because an externality is by definition not reflected in prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With High Rent] Reference

A positional externality occurs when new purchases alter the relevant context within which an existing positional good is evaluated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frankly Dumb] Reference

For the economist who views the environment as a subset of the economy, an externality, that is true, because you have if you have no demand for your friend, he will not exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bayes Who Wasn't There, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Spirit is portraying spirit, and not externality, which is here made absurd; in this manner we are driven out of the real into ideal, or we drop by the way in reading those four.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference

Its only right that those who indulge are made to pay for their own behaviours - the so-called "externality" that they create.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coors boost for minimum pricing] Reference

He begins by clearly defining the term "externality".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rule of Reason] Reference

In Bruce's terms, that would probably be an 'externality'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schneier on Security] Reference

Everything else is an "externality," including life on Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [t r u t h o u t] Reference

He first introduces the reader to the idea of an "externality" and discusses the joys of the Pigou Club.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environmental and Urban Economics] Reference

Which is fine, until you find out that they have this huge externality which is potentially catastrophic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

A real conservative would recognize that carbon is an 'externality' that has to be included in the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Pollution is called an "externality" because its cost is not borne by the polluter but by society at large.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenBiz.com Green Business News] Reference

An "externality" … is a cost imposed, or benefit bestowed, on people other than those who purchase or sell a good or service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rule of Reason] Reference

An externality is a missing price tag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ian Fletcher: The Theory That's Killing America's Economy -- and Why It's Wrong] Reference

Ramon writes: "I'm not able to see the obvious negative "externality".    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolutionary Psych and the Generation Gap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

2 The indirect victims arguments: Absent some kind of externality, I reject the form of those arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Two Views of Credit Default Swaps] Reference

It is perhaps the strongest instance of his externality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

It's what an economist would call a negative externality.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2009] Reference

This is the classic in economics, the term is externality.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2006] Reference

Making software manufacturers liable fixes this externality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sue Companies, Not Coders] Reference

It turned out that it was triggered by exactly that deficit externality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Vladimir A. Masch: Balanced Capitalism] Reference

This superficiality or at least externality of relations is the source of actual conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference

Global pollution creates a “public bad” born by all — a negative externality with a wide impact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policy responses to climate change] Reference

In economics, this is called an externality : an effect of a decision not borne by the decision maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economics, Not Apathy, Exposes Chemical Plants To Danger] Reference

In economics, this is known as an externality: an effect of a decision not borne by the decision maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sue Companies, Not Coders] Reference

It's a classic idea of economics -- internalize the externality and harness the power of market discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Need To Over-Regulate Banker Compensation] Reference

Disclosure laws only deal with the economic externality of data brokers protecting your personal information.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-ID-Theft Bill That Isn't] Reference

Ecological economists reject the neoclassical theorizations of the environment-economic problem as an externality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neoclassical, institutional, and marxist approaches to the environment-economic relationship] Reference

The storms were vivid evidence of an externality that environmentalists had warned about for years, to little avail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Job-Creation Idea No. 4: Put Those Young People To Work] Reference

For by putting the tax on the externality and thus making it internal to market pricing, we have already solved the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

Of course, such research is what economists call a positive externality — it doesn't necessarily help the person doing the sharing.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Open Wide...'] Reference

This will certainly give pissed-off users someone to sue, but it won't reduce the externality and it won't result in more-secure software.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sue Companies, Not Coders] Reference

'externality' - in other words, the effect of these emissions is not reflected in the price of energy in the marketplace, "Wellinghof said.    From Wordnik.com.  [13 Top Stories, Sports and Weather] Reference