Ecological reconceptualization of the Ukrainian philosophy of physical economy

Viktor Zinchenko () and Mykhailo Boichenko
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Viktor Zinchenko: Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv-city, Ukraine
Mykhailo Boichenko: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

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Abstract: Ecological approach gives new meaning to the original concept of economic rationality that was created by representatives of the Ukrainian school of physical economy – Serhii Podolinskyi (1850-1891), Volodymyr Vernadskyi (1863-1945) and Mykola Rudenko (1920-2004). It propose a theory of the sustainable development of mankind, which included an original version of thermodynamics, in which labor energy is the result of the transformation of solar energy. Humanity is gradually taking control of the changes in the balance of energy exchange between humanity and the rest of nature, and physical economics is a tool for discovering the limits of such control. The cycles of global energy transformation include cosmic, biological, social and spiritual stages, and the economy acts as the material basis and the place of concentration of these transformations. The threat of technogenic self-destruction of humanity actualizes the need to establish a dynamic and harmonious self-reproduction by humanity of these cycles.

Keywords: Ukrainian philosophy of physical economy; Ecological approach; Global energy transformation; Energy balance in the economy; Economic rationality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-09-16
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Published in Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2024

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