Serhiy Podolynsky
Serhiy Podolynsky | |
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| Born | July 19, 1850 Nova Yaroslavka, Russian Empire |
| Died | July 12, 1891 (aged 40) |
| Resting place | Zvirynets Cemetery |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire |
| Alma mater | Kyiv University University of Wrocław |
| Known for | Labour theory of value based on embodied energy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicine, sociology, economy |
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| Ecological economics |
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Serhiy Podolynsky (Ukrainian: Сергі́й Подоли́нський) (19 July 1850 – 12 July 1891) was a Ukrainian socialist, physician, sociologist and an early pioneer of ecological economics. He set out to reconcile socialist thought with the second law of thermodynamics by synthesising the approaches of Karl Marx, Charles Darwin and Sadi Carnot. In his essay "Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces" (1880), Podolinsky theorized a labor theory of value based on embodied energy.