Precursors of an economics for the Anthropocene

Abstract

This article aims to explore the theoretical foundations for transitional and alternative economic models, with explicit reference to the anthropological bases of economic cultures. This, in order to stress the wide space of possibilities in which the economic experience, has occurred throughout history, well beyond the perspectives of the still predominant Holocene Economics (HE). The chapter will have a glimpse into the intellectual significance of the HE critical conceptual framework, and beyond it would also review more applied approaches such as post-autistic economics, alt-spaces, heterodox economics, Economy for the Common Good, based on the key concept of the Sustainability Zeroline. The uniquely complex nature of interdependent models taking influence on a future economy of sustainability opens up new opportunities for alternative economic models of economic development in order to trigger ground-breaking contributions to addressing the challenges that a commons-oriented community development and its governance pose.