standard of value
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This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.
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
"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
A man's labour for a day is a better standard of value than a measure of any produce, because no produce ever maintains a consistent rate of productibility.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John
