Energy value theory
According to the energy value theory (also energy theory ), the value of a good is determined by the energy that is necessary for its production.
The Ukrainian physicist Sergei Andrejewitsch Podolinski gave the first impetus for such a theory . His ideas were linked to the labor theory of value and were therefore also the subject of an exchange of letters between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , but were rejected by them because, from a Marxist point of view, the concept of value was constitutively linked to the value form of work.
Similar approaches were developed by Leslie White , Wilhelm Ostwald, and Frederick Soddy , but apparently unaware of Podolinski's work.
The first consistent energy value theory was formulated by the social energeticists Léon Winiarski (1900) and Ernest Solvay (1906).
Primary literature
- Serge Podolinsky (1883): Human work and unity of strength , The new time: Review of intellectual and public life. - 1 (1883), part 1: H. 9, pp. 413-424 , part 2: H. 10, pp. 449-457
Secondary literature
- Juan Martinez -Alier (1987): Energy calculation and the concept of »productive forces « (PDF; 3.4 MB) , PROKLA 67, 71 ff.
- Fritz Söllner (1996): Thermodynamics and Environmental Economics (Habilitation), p. 149 ff.
- John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett (2004): Ecological Economics and Classical Marxism: The "Podolinsky Business" Reconsidered , Organization Environment, 2004; Issue 17; P. 32 ff.
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1882/letters/82_12_19.htm
- ↑ Helmut Brendel, Work, Nature and the Transformation of Capitalist Societies , in Frank Beckenbach (ed.): The ecological challenge for economic theory, Marburg, 1992, p. 232
- ↑ Juan Martinez -Alier (1987): Energy calculation and the concept of »productive forces « (PDF; 3.4 MB) , PROKLA 67, 71, 84.
- ^ Fritz Söllner (1996): Thermodynamik und Umweltökonomie (Habilitation), p. 149, online at Google Books