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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Then, the products of the earth once placed upon this unvarying standard, the cost of producing each different product…”

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Then, the products of the earth once placed upon this unvarying standard, the cost of producing each different product would determine its exact value, and in time the producers of each kind would be upon an exact equality in regard to the value of their products.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

Editor's note · Context

Woodhull posits that establishing a fixed standard for value would equalize the worth of different products.

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