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Externality

A cost or benefit generated by an economic activity which affects an unrelated third party. An externality can be positive (a benefit, such as the learning effects generated by the introduction of new technologies to a new market) or negative (a cost, such as the cost generated to nearby residents by industrial pollution).

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