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
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
But supposing either of these to be a correct standard of value, still it would not be a standard of riches, for riches do not depend on value.
From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by Ricardo, David
