standard of value
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We are sloppy about the standard by which we measure good and bad, our standard of value.
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
Hermann Abs, former head of West Germany's Deutsche Bank, says that "the fluctuations of the gold market preclude the establishment of gold as a standard of value."
From Time Magazine Archive
The increase of money as the standard of value inevitably tends to increase the general rate of interest.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
