Mikayla Novak's guest appearances

Mikayla Novak

Economics Detective Radio

Centre for Independent Studies

The Governance Podcast

Jennifer Murtazashvili

Niall Ferguson

Jonathan Morduch

Robert Wright

Mike Munger

Deirdre McCloskey

Jason Brennan

David Goodman

Mark Blyth

Bryan Caplan

Zach Weinersmith

Alex Nowrasteh

Eamonn Butler

Steve Horwitz

Terence Kealey

OwlTail

2022 Federal Budget Recap with Simon Cowan

On Liberty EP84 | Mikayla Novak | 2022 Federal Budget Recap

On this week's episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington, interviews Dr Mikayla Novak from the Australian National University. This episode features her latest book Freedom in Contention: Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy, which explores social movement activities and outcomes through the lens of liberal political economy. Using historical and contemporary case studies, this book illuminates how social movements fluidly organise in often repressive environments to achieve freedom, equality, and dignity.     The Guest   Dr Mikayla Novak is a doctoral student in sociology at The Australian National University. Her research interests are wide-ranging, and include: classical sociology; economic and fiscal sociology; inequality and social stratification; network theory and analysis; rational-choice sociology; social movement studies; and social theory.   Mikayla has extensively written on matters of social thought and policy, invariably attuned to the complex intersections between sociological, economic and political phenomena. In 2018 her first book, Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective, was published by Palgrave   Prior to her transition into academic sociology, Mikayla was an economist with a doctorate in economics awarded at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and a First Class Honours economics degree at The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia).

On this week's episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington, interviews Dr Mikayla Novak from the Australian National University. This episode features her latest book <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793627667/Freedom-in-Contention-Social-Movements-and-Liberal-Political-Economy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Freedom in Contention: Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy</a>, which explores social movement activities and outcomes through the lens of liberal political economy. Using historical and contemporary case studies, this book illuminates how social movements fluidly organise in often repressive environments to achieve freedom, equality, and dignity. The Guest <a href="https://mikaylanovak.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr Mikayla Novak</a> is a doctoral student in sociology at The Australian National University. Her research interests are wide-ranging, and include: classical sociology; economic and fiscal sociology; inequality and social stratification; network theory and analysis; rational-choice sociology; social movement studies; and social theory. Mikayla has extensively written on matters of social thought and policy, invariably attuned to the complex intersections between sociological, economic and political phenomena. In 2018 her first book, Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective, was published by Palgrave Prior to her transition into academic sociology, Mikayla was an economist with a doctorate in economics awarded at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and a First Class Honours economics degree at The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia).

Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy: In Conversation with Mikayla Novak

Today's guest is Mikayla Novak (Twitter, SSRN) of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University. Her work focuses on some innovative new and potential uses for blockchain technology. As we all know at this point, the first use of blockchain technology was to create decentralized digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. But a blockchain is a much more general technology than this: it is a decentralized ledger that is resistant to tampering by any one individual. As such, it is a technical innovation that can allow us to coordinate activities that a lack of trust may have prevented otherwise. Mikayla discusses institutional cryptoeconomics, an emerging field of research centered on the ways blockchain technology can improve both private and public institutions. Links Mikayla's Medium article on Crypto Fiscal Federalism discusses how blockchain could make the system of making government grants more transparent and efficient. This article by Mikayla's colleagues at RMIT gives a detailed and accessible introduction to institutional cryptoeconomics.

Today's guest is <a href="https://mikaylanovak.com/about/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Mikayla Novak</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/novakmikayla" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2914394" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">SSRN</a>) of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University. Her work focuses on some innovative new and potential uses for blockchain technology. As we all know at this point, the first use of blockchain technology was to create decentralized digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. But a blockchain is a much more general technology than this: it is a decentralized ledger that is resistant to tampering by any one individual. As such, it is a technical innovation that can allow us to coordinate activities that a lack of trust may have prevented otherwise. Mikayla discusses institutional cryptoeconomics, an emerging field of research centered on the ways blockchain technology can improve both private and public institutions. Links <a href="https://medium.com/@cryptoeconomics/crypto-fiscal-federalism-8afed1b914a2" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Mikayla's Medium article on Crypto Fiscal Federalism</a> discusses how blockchain could make the system of making government grants more transparent and efficient. <a href="https://medium.com/cryptoeconomics-australia/the-blockchain-economy-a-beginners-guide-to-institutional-cryptoeconomics-64bf2f2beec4" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">This article by Mikayla's colleagues at RMIT</a> gives a detailed and accessible introduction to institutional cryptoeconomics.

Institutional Cryptoeconomics with Mikayla Novak