standard of value
Example Sentences
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Many leading environmental thinkers, including those who predict fossil fuel catastrophe, hold as their standard of value what they call “pristine” nature or wilderness—nature unaltered by man.
From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015
We are sloppy about the standard by which we measure good and bad, our 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
The citizen does his part by producing and consuming, while the government ensures what economists call a stable standard of value -- a sound currency -- for the transactions of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grain is said to have been used in ancient China as money,—not as a standard of value, but as a medium of exchange.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
