standard of value
Example Sentences
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This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.
From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015
We are sloppy about the standard by which we measure good and bad, our 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
The citizen does his part by producing and consuming, while the government ensures what economists call a stable standard of value -- a sound currency -- for the transactions of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, money, in the true sense of the term, is not only a medium of exchange, but it is a standard of value by which all other values are measured.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
