Johan Norberg is an author, lecturer and documentary filmmaker born in Sweden. He received his M. A. in the History of Ideas from Stockholm University and is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.
Norberg has written books on a broad range of topics, including global economics and popular science. He has achieved a worldwide readership with books such as Progress and Open, translated into more than 30 languages. His 2023 book The Capitalist Manifesto was a Book of the Year in The Financial Times, and received the Hayek Book Prize from the Manhattan Institute.
His most recent book is Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages, a Book of the Year in The Economist, and described by the Financial Times as “entertaining and informative, with impeccable timing.”
Johan Norberg has also hosted several documentaries for American public television, including Sweden: Lessons for America?, India Awakes, Free or Equal?, Corporate Welfare: Where’s the Outrage?, Power to the People and The Real Adam Smith.
For his work, Norberg has received several awards, including the Distinguished Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award from the Atlas Foundation, the Walter Judd Freedom Award, the Julian Simon Memorial Award, and the gold medal from the German Hayek Foundation.