Podolinsky, Sergei Andreyevich
Published: August 18, 2006, 6:26 pm
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Sergei Andreyevich Podolinsky (1850-1891), a Ukrainian socialist among the first to explicitly scrutinize the economic process from a thermodynamics perspective. Podolinsky was heavily influenced by the Physiocrats, Carnot, and Clausius. In his work, he cited the Physiocrats' emphasis on nature as the source of wealth and the economic implications of Clausius and Carnot's discoveries. Podolinsky tried to reconcile the labor theory of value with a thermodynamic analysis of the economic process. In his conclusions, which he communicated to Frederick Engels on several occasions, Podolinsky stated that the socialist model was flawed because it assumed that “scientific socialism” would overcome all natural resource scarcities and enable unlimited material expansion. Podolinsky’s biophysical analysis led him to conclude that ultimate limits to economic growth lay not in the shackles of the relations of production, but in physical and ecological laws. Podolinsky’s work and concepts are now widely used among some biophysical analysts.
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Cutler J. Cleveland (Lead Author);Peter Saundry (Topic Editor) "Podolinsky, Sergei Andreyevich". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth August 18, 2006; Last revised Date August 18, 2006; Retrieved May 21, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Podolinsky,_Sergei_Andreyevich>
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Cutler J. Cleveland is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Professor Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier, 2005), Handbook of Energy (Elsevier, forthcoming), and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. He is the recipient of the Adelma ... (Full Bio)
Sergei Andreyevich Podolinsky (1850-1891), a Ukrainian socialist among the first to explicitly scrutinize the economic process from a thermodynamics perspective. Podolinsky was heavily influenced by the Physiocrats, Carnot, and Clausius. In his work, he cited the Physiocrats' emphasis on nature as the source of wealth and the economic implications of Clausius and Carnot's discoveries. Podolinsky tried to reconcile the labor theory of value with a thermodynamic analysis of the economic process. In his conclusions, which he communicated to Frederick Engels on several occasions, Podolinsky stated that the socialist model was flawed because it assumed that “scientific socialism” would overcome all natural resource scarcities and enable unlimited material expansion. Podolinsky’s biophysical analysis led him to conclude that ultimate limits to economic growth lay not in the shackles of the relations of production, but in physical and ecological laws. Podolinsky’s work and concepts are now widely used among some biophysical analysts.
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