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