RESEARCH INTERESTS
History of Economic Ideas (in Czechoslovakia), Economic History, Institutional Economics
EDUCATION
Ph.D. – ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY IN THE 20th CENTURY
2019 – University of Economics, Prague; Department of Economic History
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE:
The Department of Economics, University of Economics: Assistant Professor (2014-2024)
CERGE-EI: Head of the Grant Office (2018-2023)
The Institute of Economic Education: Foundation Relations Manager (nikodym [at] inev.cz)
RESEARCH AND STUDY VISITS
08/2015 – 12/2015 MERCATUS CENTER (George Mason University, Fairfax VA, USA)
07/2014 – MISES UNIVERSITY (Mises Institute, Auburn AL, USA)
MEMBERSHIPS:
Monetary Research Center, research fellow
CONFERENCES
Austrian Economics Meeting Europe (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland; May 15-18, 2025), “Libertas – On the Nature of Human Liberty”. The concept of Liberty in Catholic tradition and in the Austrian School
Chateu Valča Colloquium 2025 (Valča, Slovakia; April 12-13, 2025), The Renaissance of Liberalism? Liberalism, Ordoliberalism and the Papal Encyclicals
The Three Seas Universities Network 2025 Conference (John Paull II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland; March 12-13, 2025) - participation in the panel “Three Seas Universities Network: Science, Innovation and Cooperation for Sustainable Development and the Future of the Region.“
Misesova akademie Institutu Liberálních studií (August 29 - September 1, 2024) - Seminář: Obroda Liberalismu? Liberalismus, ordoliberalismus a papežské encykliky; Akademie: Ekonomie a historie: Československo 1945-1948
Austrian Economics Meeting Europe (Leipzig, Leipzig University; May 31 – June 1, 2024), The Renaissance of Liberalism? Liberalism, Ordoliberalism and the Papal Encyclicals
Austrian Economics Meeting Europe (Angers, Western Catholic University; May 11 – 12, 2023), Socialism and Liberty in Czechoslovakia in 1930s and 1940s
ELF Workshop: New European Liberalism - Rethinking Liberalism for the Future of Europe (Barcelona, November 25 - 26, 2022)
8th Monetary Research Center Conference (Sofia, UNWE, September 20-21, 2022), Ordoliberalism and liberalism in post-war Czechoslovakia (1945-1948)
Austrian Economics Meeting Europe (Vilnius, Domus Maria Hotel, May 20 – 21, 2022), Ordoliberalism in Czechoslovakia
Austrian Economics Meeting Europe (Budapest, Danube Institute, April 27 – 28, 2018), Institutional origins of the Cold war
Prague Conference on Political Economy (Prague, CEVRO Institute, April 13 – 14, 2018), Against Beneš? Czechoslovak opposition reconsidered
Towards a Comparative History of Economic Thought (Rome, The Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought, Italy, November 23-25, 2017), Against Beneš? Czechoslovak opposition reconsidered
Austrian Østrigsk Økonomi (Aalborg, Aalborg University, Denmark, April 25, 2017), Economic calculation debate: An Austrian perspective (Pedagogical cooperation)
Austrian Economics Meeting Europe (Kraków, Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora of the Jagiellonian University, April 21-23, 2017), Democracy, property and planning: Institutional order in post-war Czechoslovakia
Prague Conference on Political Economy (Prague, CEVRO Institute, March 17 - 18, 2017), Post-war Czechoslovakia: A theoretical critique
Konference doktorandů (Pilsen, Faculty of Philosophy, May 4, 2016), Post-war Czechoslovakia: A theoretical critique
Austrian Economics Meeting Europe (Prague, CEVRO Institute, April 21 - 22, 2016), Liberalism and Austrian school in the Czech Republic
Austrian Economics Meeting Europe (Prague, CEVRO Institute, April 21 - 22, 2016), Antonín Basch: the last Czechoslovak liberal
Prague Conference on Political Economy (Prague, CEVRO Institute, April 22 - 23, 2016), Antonín Basch: the last Czecholovak liberal
Austrian Economics Meeting Europe (Vienna, Institut für Wertewirtschaft, April 10 - 12, 2015), The Economic Causes of War and Changes in Post-War Economic Thought: From Keynes to Beneš
Prague Conference on Political Economy (CEVRO Institute, April 17-19, 2015) The Economic Causes of War and Changes in Post-War Economic Thought: From Keynes to Beneš
Výsledky ekonomického výzkumu: Konference doktorandů na Vysoké škole finanční a správní Praha. December 10 2014, Praha, Teoretické základy Šikovy reformy a její selhání
1st Witten Conference on Institutional Change: Money, Banking and the Crisis: An Austrian Economics Perspective (Witten / Herdecke University, 12 - 14 December, 2014), Bitcoin and the End of the Booms and Busts of the Business Cycle
OTHERS
BENJAMIN TUCKER INSTITUTE - Publishing and editorial activity (co-founder)
READLIBERTY.ORG - Publishing and editorial activity
AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS MEETING EUROPE