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 writing his doctoral dissertation in 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.

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