Malavika Nair

Malavika Nair is a Free Market Institute Visiting Scholar at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on questions related to monetary theory, financial history, private enterprise in money production and financial services, as well as the economics of caste.

Articles

Money or Money Substitutes?: Implications of Selgin’s Small Change Challenge

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Malavika Nair

Volume 14, Number 2; Summer 2011 Selgin (2009) questions the practicality of 100 percent reserve requirements applied to small change. He interprets the private coinage of small change in 18th century...

Media

The Economics of Bitcoin

07/24/2018 Malavika Nair

Recorded at Mises University 2018.

The Economics of Bitcoin

07/27/2017 Malavika Nair

Recorded at Mises University 2017.

Dr. Malavika Nair: Money Demystified

08/14/2015 Malavika Nair Jeff Deist

Malavika Nair explains the origins of money.

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