Ronald Hamowy is Fellow in Social Thought at the Cato Institute. He is professor of history emeritus at the University of Alberta and previously was assistant director of the History of Western Civilization Program at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in social thought under F. A. Hayek at the University of Chicago. He is the author of books on the Scottish Enlightenment and on health care and the editor of a book on drug prohibition. He is the editor of the Liberty Press edition of Cato's Letters and of The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism.
"F.A. Hayek and the Common Law," Cato Journal Vol. 23 no. 2, Fall 2003.
"F.A. Hayek, on the Occasion of the Centenary of His Birth," Cato Journal, Vol. 19, no. 2, Fall 1999.
"The IRS and Civil Liberties: Powers of Search and Seizure," Cato Journal, Vol. 1 no. 1, Spring 1981.