fictitious value

Who created all the fictitious value in the first place?

No book of his been published; he carried no fictitious value in their eyes.

Such "averages are fictitious values that provide a totally false idea of the elements that have served to constitute them," he says.

Therefore it was not for any real value, but for a purely fictitious value that Judge Blount invited him to dinner.

All this on credit, on paper, on wind, on inflated and fictitious values--on the boom's moonshine, in fact.

If we say that the State ought not by taxation to give a fictitious value to land, or to any particular branch of industry, we are enemies to property and labour.

But in fact he was the foundation upon which Mr. McDougal built his fraudulent savings and loan, creating fictitious values that allowed Mr. McDougal to pursue his schemes.

By adding over-financialisation, as it were, to his model of overaccumulation, Harvey means to show how an initial contradiction between production and realisation later 'becomes, via the agency of the credit system, an outright antagonism' between the financial system of fictitious values and its monetary base, founded on commodity values.

Just before we got to the confines of the town a pretty young girl, with some beautiful lilies in her hand, came running forward and presented them to Good (somehow they all seemed to like Good; I think his eye-glass and solitary whisker gave him a fictitious value), and then said she had a boon to ask.