Mikayla Novak to present “Entangled Political Economy of the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Our next virtual seminar will take place on November 17, at 2:30 E.T. Mikayla Novak will speak on Entangled Political Economy of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Mikayla is a doctoral candidate in the School of Sociology at The Australian National University and the author of Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective. Besides her many academic accomplishments, Mikayla has been instrumental in launching EPERN and currently serves as the Associate Director of the network. Mikayla's paper is attached and here is the abstract:
The Covid-19 pandemic has substantially altered economic, social, and political relationships. The relational consequences of the pandemic will be interrogated using the lens of “entangled political economy” (EPE). The EPE approach explicitly recognises human interactions generating complex economic-socio-political phenomena, yet Covid-19 clarifies the synergies between human, biological, and physical systems in maintaining both productive and healthy relations. The pandemic has induced powerful crisis responses, via governmental regulations and social norms, substantially depressing economic activity. Contrary to perceptions Covid-19 led to a state of economic “hibernation,” EPE theory suggests extensive re- entanglement of relationships that influence the robustness of productive economic exchange. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic has also escalated the significance of health care operations in the modern economy, entrenching health as a site for continuing governmental growth. EPE presents novel perspectives regarding the need to adapt, and ultimately mitigate, diseases threatening human life, liberty, property, and happiness.
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Mikayla Novak is a doctoral candidate in the School of Sociology at The Australian National University. Her current research interests include classical sociology, digital sociology, economic and fiscal sociology, social movement studies, social network analysis, and social philosophy. With an academic and professional background in economics, her publications have appeared in outlets such as Research Policy, Constitutional Political Economy, Review of Austrian Economics, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Cosmos+Taxis, and The Cato Journal. Novak is the author of Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and is presently writing a book intersecting classical liberal political economy and social movement studies. She is associate director of the Entangled Political Economy Research Network
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