standard of value
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On a human standard of value, the answer is absolutely yes.
From Forbes ● Jan. 29, 2015
This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.
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
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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 David Ricardo