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
Many leading environmental thinkers, including those who predict fossil fuel catastrophe, hold as their standard of value what they call “pristine” nature or wilderness—nature unaltered by man.
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
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
