Johan Norberg

Biography

Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress, and intellectual history. Norberg is the author and editor of more than twenty books, translated into more than thirty languages. They include In Defense of Global Capitalism (2003), Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016), Open: The Story of Human Progress (2020), and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023). Norberg is also the writer and host of numerous television documentaries on such subjects as energy, economics, Sweden, India, and Adam Smith. Many of them can be found at the Free to Choose Network. Norberg’s forthcoming book, Peak Human, will be available in September 2025.

Swedish Origins of ‘Liberal’ as a Political Label

Johan Norberg

Mar 26th, 2025

Swedish Origins of ‘Liberal’ as a Political Label

Johan Norberg delves into the history of the use of the word “liberal” as a political philosophy, starting from its earliest uses in Swedish politics.

Johan Norberg

Oct 25th, 2013

How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich

Sweden often gets held up as an example of how socialism can work better than markets. But, as Norberg shows, Sweden’s history in fact points to the opposite conclusion.