Ukrainian natural scientist and economist Serhii Podolinsky, the authors support the opinion
of modern researchers that Podolinsky's ideas, published in this work in 1880, have
foreseen some moments from Vladimir Vernadsky's noosphere concept. Podolinsky also
underlined that there are countries which formerly had been rich but later almost fell into
poverty. He believed, and this has proved correct from a modern point of view, that such a …