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Johan Norberg is a Swedish author known for his in-depth research on free markets, globalization, and individual freedom. His work often emphasizes how free markets promote economic growth and social progress.

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“So it was not superior thinkers, inventors or businesses that made Europe rich, but the fact that European elites were less successful in obstructing them... This is somewhat similar to our era of globalization. More countries, in more places, now have access to the sum of humanity's knowledge, and are open to the best innovations from other places... If progress is blocked in one place, many others will continue humanity's journey. (217-218)”

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Book:Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

Source: Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

“It’s not that the means corrupt the ends. It’s that the ends never work, and that’s why they need brutal means.”

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Author:Johan Norberg

“Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.”

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Book:In Defence of Global Capitalism

Source: In Defence of Global Capitalism

“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.”

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Author:Johan Norberg

“The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.”

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Book:In Defence of Global Capitalism

Source: In Defence of Global Capitalism

“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.”

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Book:In Defence of Global Capitalism

Source: In Defence of Global Capitalism

“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.”

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Author:Johan Norberg

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Born: August 27, 1973
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