standard of value
Example Sentences
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It is holding human nonimpact as one’s standard of value, without regard for human life and happiness.
From Forbes ● Jan. 29, 2015
This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.
From Forbes ● Jan. 29, 2015
“Its life is the standard of value directing its actions,” Rand wrote, “it acts automatically to further its life and cannot act for its own destruction.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2012
"Thus," he said, "over the whole area of the British Empire and over a very wide and important area of the world there has been established at once one uniform standard of value."
From Time Magazine Archive
It does not pretend to correct the multiple commodity standard to make it conform to some "absolute" standard of value.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
