We have said that there is a true standard of value, and that this is based in the capacity of a country to pay without infringing upon the country itself; that is, without resorting to an actual transfer of supposed title to any part of its domain for something the domain itself produced.
She emphasizes that true value is derived from a nation's productive capacity rather than its monetary systems.
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