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 dollar thus became the standard of value against which all other moneys in the non-Communist world are measured.
From Time Magazine Archive
Assume that the standard of value is defined as a dollar, which is further defined as 23.22 grains of pure gold.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
