Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Swedish author Johan Norberg.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Johan Norberg is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, devoted to promoting economic globalization and what he describes as classical liberal positions. He is arguably most known as the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism (2001) and Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016). Since 15 March 2007 he has been a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and since January 2017 an executive editor at Free To Choose Media, where he regularly produces documentaries for US public television.
Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.
Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.
Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.
The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.