The authors argue that Ricardo, unlike Marx, was no ‘metallist’, that is, he never applied the labour theory of value to the monetary metal to determine the general price level. --Economic Journal (1991) 101, p. 407.
an advocate of metal coinage as the principal or sole currency
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an ad·vo·cate of metal coin·age as the prin·ci·pal or sole cur·ren·cy