standard of value
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This is the exact opposite of holding human life as one’s standard of value.
From Forbes • Jan. 29, 2015
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
“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
Hermann Abs, former head of West Germany's Deutsche Bank, says that "the fluctuations of the gold market preclude the establishment of gold as a standard of value."
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
