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
It is holding human nonimpact as one’s standard of value, without regard for human life and happiness.
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
Floating of the dollar, the currency that has served as the standard of value for all other non-Communist money, would represent the ultimate in flexibility.
From Time Magazine Archive
But supposing either of these to be a correct standard of value, still it would not be a standard of riches, for riches do not depend on value.
From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by Ricardo, David
