Johan Norberg delivered the keynote speech at the European Students For Liberty 2014 Conference on March 14 to 16 at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. The goal of the conference was to bring classical liberal/pro-liberty/libertarian students from across Europe together, to exchange experience in campus activism, to train students through workshops, and help them grow…
During February 9-16, the world-leading libertarian magazine Reason arranged a cruise in the Caribbean for readers, friends and donors. Johan Norberg was invited to talk about both reform in Europe, and how the fate of absinthe explains the world over the last 150 years. In the line-up you could also find people like Bjørn Lomborg and…
Johan Norberg’s next book in Swedish is about how power of digitalisation and globalisation disrupts everything. To test the idea, he tried to fund the book via crowdfunding. He asked for 100,000 SEK (≈$15,300) in one month. He got that sum in 30 hours, and reached a total of 205,000 SEK from 421 backers, which…
Johan Norberg’s latest documentary, Economic Freedom in Action: Changing Lives premieres on public television in the United States in November. It is a one-hour documentary that travels the world to look at economic reform and profile the inspiring entrepreneurs that have used it to improve the lives of their families and societies. National Review calls…
In 2011, the Nobel laureate in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, delivered the keynote address at the Atlas Network’s Freedom Dinner in New York. This year, that honor was Johan Norberg’s. In front of hundreds of people who are fighting for freedom and human rights in their countries, he talked about their struggle and what it…
Johan Norberg’s latest book in Swedish is Migrationens kraft (The Power of Migration), co-written with Fredrik Segerfeldt and published by Hydra. It presents the case for open borders, outlining a moral defense for the freedom of movement, while at the same time explaining how it can benefit both the migrant, the country he leaves and…
Sweden’s biggest daily, Dagens Nyheter, Sydsvenska Dagbladet and several other newspapers pays attention to Johan Norberg’s 40th birthday, with a personal portrait beginning with the words “He has never been afraid to stick his neck out”. Read more in Sydsvenska Dagbladet here.
Johan Norberg’s Swedish book The Brain Revolution, on the past, present and future of human intelligence has been translated into Norwegian by the publisher Cappellen Damm. Norway’s second largest daily writes that the book is “easily accessible and full of absorbing examples and stimulating questions … your brain will not be the same after you have…
In late May, the world was surprised to watch riots and burning buildings in heavily immigrant-populated suburbs of Stockholm. In The Spectator (UK), Johan Norberg writes about the deep divide in Swedish society, a country that has reformed much, but still regulates labour markets and has high entry-level wages. As a result, Sweden has very…
The financial book review site EQTBooks has compiled a list of the best Swedish books of business and finance of all time. On third place we find Johan Norberg’s In Defense of Global Capitalism: “Norberg’s devotion and contagious enthusiasm can move mountains”. Read a PDF of the whole list here.
