standard of value
Example Sentences
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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
Floating of the dollar, the currency that has served as the standard of value for all other non-Communist money, would represent the ultimate in flexibility.
From Time Magazine Archive
One man considers money as a standard of value, and a nation grows richer or poorer, according to him, in proportion as its commodities of all kinds can380 exchange for more or less money.
From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by Ricardo, David
