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
"The price of your house was your standard of value in the 1970s," says Kathryn Eickhoff, president of her own economics-research firm in New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the moment Holland had therefore no standard of value, the Mint being closed to silver, and gold being unrecognised.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
