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Jonathan Fortier talks with Johan Norberg, author of The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.
Jonathan Fortier talks with Johan Norberg, author of The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023). The conversation explores how a simple coffee shop can illustrate the complexity of international trade, why capitalism is a "double thank you" system in which we may all get what we need more efficiently, and much more. Norberg delves into everyday examples that help us appreciate this economic system that has brought us unprecedented prosperity.
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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.