standard of value
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On a human standard of value, the answer is absolutely yes.
From Forbes ● Jan. 29, 2015
Not everyone holds human life as their standard of value, and people often argue that things are right or wrong for reasons other than the ways they benefit or harm human beings.
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
Romans, why copper became the standard of value among them, 16.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
