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Different kinds of value.

• Signal Value — the red car, book’s cover, the beautiful wife.
• Use Value — the dependable car.
• Labor Value — really a cost, the cost of the labor necessary to create the good.
• Experiance Value — sometimes called entertainment value, i.e. the experiance of going to Starbucks is more than the quality of the coffee.
• Option Value — all the things the buyer imagines he can do with the good.
• Salvage Value
• Net Present Value — a quant’s means of discounting the sum of future benefits generated by the good via the owner’s discount (or interest) rate.

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Update: There doesn’t seem to be a standard term for the value that might be described as durable, dependable, trustable, consistent; e.g. the absence of risk.