Value or values may refer to:
Ethics and social sciences
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Value (ethics)
In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics), or to describe the significance of different ac ...
, concept which may be construed as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, associating value to them
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Axiology, interdisciplinary study of values, including ethical values
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Social imaginary, set of morals, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group
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Religious values, beliefs and practices which a religious adherent partakes in
Economics
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Value (economics)
In economics, economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a goods, good or service (economics), service to an Agent (economics), economic agent, and value for money represents an assessment of whether financial or other resources are ...
, a measure of the benefit that may be gained from goods or service
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Theory of value (economics), the study of the concept of economic value
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Value (marketing), the difference between a customer's evaluation of benefits and costs
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Value investing, an investment paradigm
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Values (heritage), the measure by which the cultural significance of heritage items is assessed
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Present value
In economics and finance, present value (PV), also known as present discounted value (PDV), is the value of an expected income stream determined as of the date of valuation. The present value is usually less than the future value because money ha ...
, value of an expected income stream as of the date of valuation
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Present value of benefits, discounted sum of a stream of benefits associated with a project or proposal
Business
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Business value, forms of value that determine the health and well-being of a firm
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Customer value, economic value received by the end-customer of a product or service
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Employee value, economic value an employee brings to an organization
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Shareholder value, business term
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Value (marketing), prospective customer's evaluation of the benefits and costs of one product
Other uses
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lightness or tone, a representation of variation in the perception of a color or color space's brightness
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Value (computer science), an expression that implies no further mathematical processing; a "normal form"
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Value (mathematics), a property such as number assigned to or calculated for a variable, constant or expression
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Value (semiotics), the significance, purpose and/or meaning of a symbol as determined or affected by other symbols
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Note value, the relative duration of a musical note
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Values (political party), a defunct New Zealand environmentalist political party
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"Value" (''Atlanta''), 2016 TV episode
See also
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Instrumental and intrinsic value
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Value theory
Value theory, also called ''axiology'', studies the nature, sources, and types of Value (ethics and social sciences), values. It is a branch of philosophy and an interdisciplinary field closely associated with social sciences such as economics, ...
, a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree people value things
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Valu (disambiguation)
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