Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of Alternativity seeks to establish a definition of the mainstream, and by extension the alternatives to it, by adopting a genealogical approach: tracing the methodological development of the economic mainstream through its ancestry.

Georg N. Schäfer is a doctoral candidate of sociology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His PhD project, which will inquire into the role of modern economic activity in the genesis of the Anthropocene, links his research interest in the history of ideas and knowledge, the history of economic thought, environmental history, and the human geological epoch. He is also an associated researcher with the Institut für Wirtschaftsgestaltung, Berlin.

Sören E. Schuster is a doctoral candidate of philosophy at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. His research pursuits at the Institut für Wirtschaftsgestaltung in Berlin include philosophy of economics, history of economic thought, philosophy of management, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

00. Foreword 01: Introduction. A genealogical approach to alternativity 02: Today's mainstream in four genealogical steps 03. Genealogical Outlook: After today's mainstream 04. Application contexts 05. Conclusion