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Johan Norberg

Senior Fellow

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 20 books, translated into more than 30 languages. They include In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, and Open: The Story of Human Progress. Both latter books were named by The Economist as a book of the year in 2016 and 2020 respectively.

Norberg is 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 Free​to​Choose​.tv. He also hosts a video series on innovation, New and Improved.

Norberg’s articles and opinion pieces appear regularly in both Swedish and international newspapers, and he is a regular commentator and contributor on television and radio around the world discussing global economics and classical liberal ideas.

For his work, Norberg has received several awards, including the Distinguished Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award from the Atlas Network, the Walter Judd Freedom Award, the Julian L Simon Memorial Award and the gold medal from the German Hayek Stiftung.

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