Mikayla Novak is a senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She received a PhD in economics from RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia), and a PhD in sociology from The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). Her key research interests include Austrian and evolutionary economics, economic sociology, institutional economics, public choice, and social theory and philosophy.