Ronald Hamowy
Fellow in Social Thought
Ronald Hamowy has been named 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 (before the days of "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go!"). 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. Hamowy has long been associated with the Cato Institute. He published "The IRS and Civil Liberties" in the first issue of the Cato Journal and served briefly as editor of Cato's Inquiry magazine. He has written several articles for Cato’s forthcoming Encyclopedia of Libertarianism and is the editor of the Liberty Press edition of Cato’s Letters.
Speeches and Testimony
"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, VVol. 1 no. 1, Spring 1981.