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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.

Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of Alternativity seeks to establish a definition of the mainstream economics, and by extension the alternatives to it, by adopting a genealogical approach: tracing the methodological development of the economic mainstream through its ancestry, which allows for a definition of the mainstream that is separate from politically charged categories or gridlocked academic arguments between received schools of thought. The book follows the evolution of the economic mainstream through four major transformations of the discipline: from political to analytical economics, debates around a logical empiricist economics, the consolidation of neoclassical economics, and the recent expansion of the mainstream. For each of these steps, the key point of departure is explored, illustrated through the work of leading authors at the time. Thus, the book draws on recent research from the history of economic thought and debates the crucial role of historic concepts of economics for alternativity in the field. To put the approach into practice, it examines the relation between today's mainstream economics and two of its alternatives: ecological economics and degrowth. Finally, the book reflects on recent exciting developments in the discourse on alternativity and sheds light on some distant relatives of today's mainstream. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the debates around the state and nature of mainstream, alternative, and heterodox economics.

Die etablierten Wirtschaftswissenschaften übersetzen Gewinne jeglicher Art vollkommen selbstverständlich in monetäre Renten. Dabei weitet sich der Anwendungsbereich dieses Zugangs stetig aus, wie etwa Care-Arbeit und Umweltökonomik zeigen. Die Reduzierung des Ökonomischen auf monetär-ökonomische Logiken ist jedoch eine äußerst junge — und, mit Blick auf die Ideengeschichte, strittige — Operation. Der Band versammelt wirtschaftsphilosophische Beiträge, die von der politischen Ökonomie der Antike, in gabenökonomischen Ansätzen oder der Ökonomie der Mafia erweiterte Gewinnbegriffe ausmachen und versuchen, auf diese Weise neue Zugänge zum Verständnis des Ökonomischen zu legen und das etablierte ökonomische Paradigma in Frage zu stellen. Mit Beiträgen von Irene Colombi, Dr. Marc Frick, Dr. Christian Kremser, PD Dr. Reiner Manstetten, Prof. Dr. Birger P. Priddat, Prof. Masatoshi Sasaki, Georg Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Annika Schlitte, Sören E. Schuster, Dr. Michaël Suurendonk und Dr. Tanja von Egan-Krieger.