Akiva Malamet

Akiva Malamet is a Research Associate in health policy at the Cato Institute. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy and Political & Legal Thought from Queen’s University and a B.A. in Government from Reichman University. His work focuses on clinician licensing, food and drug regulation, civil liberties in medicine, and pluralistic care provision, with broader interests in the institutions, culture, and philosophical foundations of a free and open society. His writing has appeared in popular outlets including The UnPopulist, Econlib, Liberal Currents, and Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org, as well as academic venues such as The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism and Cosmos + Taxis. He was a Don Lavoie Fellow with the Mercatus Center, a PPE Graduate Fellow with the Institute for Liberal Studies, and a recipient of the Carl Menger Essay Prize from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.