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# Akiva Malamet 

Former Research Associate

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Akiva Malamet was a health policy research associate at the Cato Institute. His work focused 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. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy and Political & Legal Thought from Queen’s University and a B.A. in Government from Reichman University.

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