Value

Value or values may refer to:

Ethics and social

• Value (ethics) wherein said concept may be construed as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, associating value to them
  • Values (Western philosophy) expands the notion of value beyond that of ethics, but limited to Western sources
• Social imaginary is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group

Economics

• Value (economics), a measure of the benefit that may be gained from goods or service
  • Theory of value (economics), the study of the concept of economic value
  • Value (marketing), the difference between a customer's evaluation of benefits and costs
  • Value investing, an investment paradigm
• Values (heritage), the measure by which the cultural significance of heritage items is assessed
• Present value
• Present value of benefits

Business

• Business value
• Customer value proposition
• Employee value proposition
• Value (marketing)
• Value proposition

Other uses

• Value, also known as lightness or tone, a representation of variation in the perception of a color or color space's brightness
• Value (computer science), an expression that implies no further mathematical processing; a "normal form"
• Value (mathematics), a property such as number assigned to or calculated for a variable, constant or expression
• Value (semiotics), the significance, purpose and/or meaning of a symbol as determined or affected by other symbols
• Note value, the relative duration of a musical note
• Values (political party), a defunct New Zealand environmentalist political party

See also

• Instrumental and intrinsic value
• Value theory, a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree people value things