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
On a human standard of value, the answer is absolutely yes.
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
Nothing can be more just than the following observations of Mr. Malthus, on Adam Smith's standard of value.
From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by Ricardo, David
