# Johan Norberg **URL:** --- 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_](https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Capitalism-Norberg-Institute-Defence/dp/1930865473) (2003)_,_ [_Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future_](https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Reasons-Look-Forward-Future/dp/1780749503) (2016)_,_ [_Open: The Story of Human Progress_](https://www.amazon.com/Open-Story-Progress-Johan-Norberg/dp/1786497182) (2020), and [_The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World_](https://www.amazon.com/Capitalist-Manifesto-Global-Market-World/dp/B0C63BZ83L/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12R2EU7RBJJOT&keywords=capitalist%20manifesto%20norberg&qid=1695045803&sprefix=capitalist%20manifesto%20norberg,aps,67&sr=8-1) (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](https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/media/). Norberg’s forthcoming book, [_Peak Human_](https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Human-Historys-Greatest-Civilizations/dp/1838957294), will be available in September 2025.