The phrase "aggregate benefit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the total or combined advantages or gains from a particular action, policy, or investment.
Example: "The aggregate benefit of implementing the new policy will be evident in the increased productivity and employee satisfaction."
Alternatives: "total benefit" or "combined advantage".
But since the newly available products are often of niche interest only, the aggregate benefit to consumers is small.
The chief executive of AGL, Andy Vesey, told Guardian Australia: "The beauty of the project is it's being done over 1,000 batteries, and that's how we deliver an aggregate benefit to the grid itself.
For example, an air-pollution regulation might kick in at 50 employees that creates a significant cost for the employer and little aggregate benefit for his employees but creates a significant benefit for the people of France.
For all the aggregate benefit, though, falling real wages hurt workers in many sectors.By contrast bad deflation results when demand runs chronically below the economy's capacity to supply goods and services, leaving an output gap.
But you only get this aggregate benefit if you do not allow your phone or watch to buzz and beep and ring for things that are not mission critical at the moment.
And by the way, just going back to NAFTA for a second, I don't dispute that there may have been some modest aggregate benefit in terms of lowering prices on consumer goods for example.
A good measure of social welfare will aggregate benefits from hunting and protection against crime with the risk of mishap.
During the past decade, each of these programs has experienced changes in funding, enrollment and aggregate benefits payouts.
Since then, gas prices have risen by more than $3 a gallon, resulting in individual suffering and aggregate benefits.
The present value of these aggregate benefits ranges between US$31 and US$71 million, using a social discount rate of 3%.
Overall, the aggregate benefits of globalization to American consumers, economists say, outweigh the costs and painful dislocations for workers and families and even whole towns, no matter that the losers are more easily identifiable — and vocal — than the winners.
