Serhiy Podolynsky

Serhiy Podolynsky
Born	(1850-07-19)July 19, 1850 Nova Yaroslavka, Russian Empire
Died	July 12, 1891(1891-07-12) (aged 40) Kiev
Resting place	Zvirynets Cemetery

Serhiy Podolynsky (Ukrainian: Сергі́й Подоли́нський) (19 July 1850 – 1891) was a Ukrainian socialist, physician, 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.

Bibliography

• "Le Socialisme et la Théorie de Darwin (Socialism and the Theory of Darwin)," La Revue Socialiste, issue 3, 1880. pp. 129-148.
• "Le Socialisme et l'unité des forces physiques (Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces)," La Revue Socialiste, issue 8, June 1880. pp. 353-365.
• "Menschliche arbeit und einheit der kraft (Human Labor and the Unity of Physical Forces)," Die Neue Zeit, September-October 1883. pp. 413-424, 449-457.