Johan Norberg

@johanknorberg56k followers

Classical liberal, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. New book: Peak Human – "Could a history book be more timely?" (The Economist)

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1	Apr 17, '24	So much for "The first generation that will be poorer than their parents".	156×	1.2M	2.5k	505	882
2	Aug 29, '23	How did Sweden fare during the pandemic? Back then, the world was shocked by our openness. New York Times called us a “cautionary tale”, Trump said “Sweden is suffering very greatl	126×	990k	2.6k	809	574
3	Oct 10, '23	What happened to the “race to the bottom”, the most popular anti-globalization theory around 2000? Stiglitz et al warned we’d see more poverty, child labor and pollution as countri	116×	908k	3.3k	777	897
4	May 2, '23	Incredible. Bolivarian socialism has turned Venezuela into the most unequal country in the world, according to research at Andrés Bello Catholic University.	51×	401k	641	225	41
5	Jun 24, '16	Financial Times just gave up.	46.9×	0	6.5k	8.7k	1
6	Jan 8, '25	India’s performance before and after the start of economic liberalization in 1991, via @martinwolf_	39.9×	314k	921	199	179
7	Jan 16, '24	It’s that time of year again: Oxfam is making up data. Warning about ”widening and extreme inequality”, “Since 2020, the richest 5 men in the world have doubled their fortunes. Dur	36.1×	284k	1.1k	275	205
8	Nov 26, '16	When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like Fidel Castro, not screaming in terror, like his victims.	32.2×	0	6.6k	4.8k	1
9	Apr 23, '24	If you like capitalism, you will enjoy this book. If you don't, you need it.	29.6×	232k	661	136	161
10	Jan 18, '19	There, I fixed the 10-year challenge for you.	27.1×	0	7.3k	3k	55
11	Oct 5, '23	Actually, yes. More such failures, please.	25.8×	202k	1.7k	269	47
12	Mar 29, '24	”For a headline of average length, each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3%”	24.8×	195k	295	103	54
13	Oct 15, '23	Welcome back, Poland, we have been waiting for you to take your rightful place as a leading democratic European power. (If exit polls are correct, and the opposition ousts the nati	19.8×	156k	646	64	8
14	Dec 31, '24	It's been 25 years since the turn of the millennium – a quarter century of wars, crises, and a pandemic. Yet, thanks to human creativity and innovations that helped us navigate har	19.4×	152k	1k	390	110
15	Mar 16, '21	Why have I not been vaccinated yet? A short Q&A.	18.5×	0	5.3k	1.5k	284
16	Nov 28, '19	Just one month left of the best decade in history.	17.6×	0	4.3k	1.9k	191
17	Sep 17, '20	82% of Democrats and 16% of Republicans support single-payer healthcare when told that Obama supports it. When instead told that Trump supports it, Dem support drop to 46% and Rep	17.4×	0	4.7k	1k	269
18	Oct 13, '16	How the world changed in 25 years.	16.5×	0	3.2k	2.2k	42
19	Nov 20, '23	Yes, Javier Milei is an untested eccentric, but what Argentina had before was a proven disaster.	15×	118k	635	153	33
20	Nov 9, '20	How it started: "Covid-19 is the end of globalism and neoliberalism" How it's going: Vaccine created at record speed by big pharma that declined government subsidies, based on tech	14.7×	0	4.5k	1.2k	127
21	Jan 17, '17	If we don't end neoliberalism we'll see more of what happened in the last 25 years, warns Oxfam.	14×	0	2.5k	2.1k	3
22	Sep 21, '23	Why on earth did I write a Capitalist Manifesto? Because more people believe in ghosts than in capitalism. Today's fashionable narrative is that the rich got richer and the poor po	13.7×	108k	531	158	98
23	Aug 29, '23	Sweden’s excess death rate during the three pandemic years, 2020–2022, compared to the previous three years, was 4.4%. Remarkably, it is the lowest excess mortality rate of all Eur	13.7×	108k	721	178	49
24	Dec 30, '16	Ten things that also happened in 2016.	13.3×	0	2.2k	2.1k	0
25	Oct 13, '23	So this is what Hamas did in the midst of Gaza's severe water crisis. More important to murder Israelis than to save Gazans, apparently.	12.6×	99k	821	152	20
26	Jan 16, '17	8 people are richer than 3.6 bn, says Oxfam. So? My daughter, who has $20, is richer than 2 bn. So the problem is poverty, not inequality.	11.9×	0	2.2k	1.8k	0
27	Oct 10, '23	The thing is, capital doesn’t search for the poorest places (they are usually poor because it’s difficult to do business there). More importantly, when trade and capital actually h	11.9×	94k	864	116	91
28	Aug 6, '23	Martin Luther King Jr. on communism.	11.5×	91k	558	103	71
29	Apr 2, '25	The longest suicide note in economic history.	11.1×	88k	1.9k	360	67
30	Jan 26, '22	Oxfam’s new report rails against a “40-year period of neoliberalism, during which economic policy choices have been purchased by rich, powerful and corrupt elites”. If true, this 4	10.3×	0	3.1k	830	125
31	Apr 2, '25	Wow, so the Trump numbers aren’t made up — they just use a delusional method: pretending that when a country exports more to the US than it imports, it is a tariff. Bonkers.	9.5×	75k	614	94	35
32	Dec 29, '24	In The Capitalist Manifesto, I highlighted Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) to show that the reforms of the 1980s were not just ideological whims, but practical responses to the failures o	9.5×	75k	524	109	71
33	Sep 15, '25	Fantastic. Orbán has found that underage girls caused as many as 280 of Sweden’s 92 annual violent deaths. With such grasp of statistics, it’s hardly surprising Hungary’s economy i	8.9×	70k	1.2k	108	40
34	Oct 10, '23	I save examples of intellectual honesty in a little box, and I open it whenever I risk making the mistake of confusing angry tribalists with mankind.	8.6×	67k	420	42	29
35	Apr 24, '20	People, please. Before you share the first chart to prove that Sweden is a disaster, or the second, to prove that Sweden is a success, bear in mind that the world knows that the ot	8.1×	0	2.4k	566	138
36	Aug 29, '23	Sweden had no orders to stay at home and no mask mandates. Schools, offices, factories, restaurants, libraries, shopping centers, gyms and hairdressers stayed open. Our Social Demo	7.9×	62k	522	69	14
37	Jun 18, '24	The last speaker at our @CatoInstitute Argentina conference was president @JMilei. Western media wants to present him as a crazy Trump populist, and he sure keeps some strange comp	7.7×	61k	694	128	38
38	Oct 2, '23	In 1995, Katalin Karikó was demoted from a senior position at Pennsylvania University and had to accept a substantial pay cut, because few believed in her mRNA technology. Today sh	7.2×	57k	358	94	12
39	Aug 29, '23	Did these gains come at the expense of health? Surprisingly, no. Sweden was an outlier in terms of policy, but not in terms of Covid-19 mortality, and only suffered 7% of the death	7.0×	55k	453	65	11
40	Oct 10, '23	The share of workers in extreme poverty declined faster than ever before, from 26% to 6% between 2000 and 2022.	6.5×	51k	508	59	19
41	May 6, '21	Has anything like this been recorded in peacetime anywhere before? "per capita GDP in Venezuela has dropped a staggering 87% over the past decade, from $12,200 a year in 2011 to $1	6.3×	0	1.4k	557	61
42	Oct 14, '25	The only problem with Joel Mokyr winning the Nobel Prize in economics is that people will realize where I get all my ideas from. In my book Peak Human, I cite him 35 times – and op	6.1×	48k	949	99	336
43	Oct 23, '23	I am pretty sure this will qualify for a blurb on the second edition.	5.9×	46k	421	25	12
44	Aug 29, '23	Swedes turn out to have adapted their behaviors to the pandemic, but voluntarily. It suggests that it was not Sweden, but the lockdown countries that engaged in a reckless experime	5.8×	45k	596	90	2
45	Oct 13, '25	Hurrah! Joel Mokyr has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. One of the greatest economic historians of our time. If you haven’t read him yet, start with The Lever of Riches,	5.8×	45k	729	129	220
46	Dec 31, '19	I know it's hard to believe when you follow the news, but the 2010s was the best decade ever.	5.8×	0	1.3k	660	51
47	Oct 10, '23	In conclusion, the race to the bottom is a myth. If anything, globalization and free trade have set off a race to the top. I’ve just published this paper about it in Cato’s Defendi	5.8×	45k	438	59	28
48	Apr 9, '22	If I were French, I would vote for the candidate who keeps a healthy distance to the dictator. 🇫🇷	5.6×	0	2.3k	243	5
49	Nov 29, '24	This is an amazing cover:	5.4×	43k	1.1k	120	55
50	Oct 10, '23	The child labor rate declined by 40% 2000-2020, and even more for hazardous work.	5.3×	42k	408	44	10
51	Feb 10, '25	If at first you don’t succeed…	5.2×	41k	619	147	58
52	Aug 29, '23	School kids also benefited. The U.S. Department of Education concludes that half of America’s students began 2023 a full year behind grade level in at least one subject. In sharp c	5.2×	41k	373	45	3
53	Aug 29, '23	I have just published a Cato Policy Analysis paper about these little-known findings, “Sweden during the Pandemic: Pariah or Paragon?” You can read it here:	4.6×	36k	428	60	53
54	May 8, '20	But it's difficult to compare death rates in Sweden and Russia, because Sweden doesn't hide cases. For example, when a doctor is pushed out of a window to his death, it is recorded	4.6×	0	1.6k	338	12
55	Apr 9, '25	If a 90-day pause from your own polices makes the market euphoric, maybe take the hint?	4.5×	36k	1.1k	177	17
56	Apr 18, '24	View post on X	4.4×	35k	512	6	7
57	Oct 10, '23	Neither is there an environmental race to the bottom. As countries get richer, they invest more in green tech and environmental performance. Remarkably, environmental protection is	4.4×	35k	409	48	6
58	Aug 29, '23	As expected, the economy benefited. The world economy was 2.9% smaller late 2021 than it would be according to forecasts before the pandemic; the Eurozone 2.1% smaller, and the U.S	4.4×	34k	348	34	8
59	Oct 13, '20	How it started / How it ended	3.9×	0	1.1k	398	22
60	May 9, '24	Protests against Israel's participation in Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö Sweden, today. Here we learn how they can support Hamas and intifada: they have a soft spot for totalita	3.8×	30k	406	74	8
61	Dec 31, '18	Happy new year!	3.8×	0	915	445	11
62	Feb 22, '17	When your clichés about Sweden don't work.	3.8×	0	1k	411	0
63	Apr 3, '25	View post on X	3.7×	29k	747	191	38
64	Sep 2, '25	At last – it’s publication day for my new book in the US!	3.7×	29k	196	24	26
65	Apr 8, '25	And the US is Peronist while Argentina is libertarian.	3.5×	28k	790	109	26
66	Oct 6, '20	In 2007 just 27% of US Muslims said that homosexuality should be accepted by society. 10 years later, this had increased to 52%. US Muslims are now more tolerant than the average A	3.3×	0	1.2k	180	36
67	Dec 24, '24	The greatest gift is liberty, peace and prosperity. Merry Christmas from Adam Smith and me.	3.1×	24k	772	35	12
68	Oct 23, '23	@elonmusk Thanks for taking the time to read and share my book. Delighted you liked it. For anyone interested, here is the Amazon link:	3.1×	24k	350	18	19
69	Jan 20, '17	So if Oxfam thinks "neoliberalism" is a disaster, what is success? I googled.	3.0×	0	565	456	0
70	Aug 12, '22	”Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem” – Salman Rushdie	3.0×	0	1.1k	234	10
71	Oct 4, '20	Pope Francis on "neoliberalism": this "repetitive school of thought always offers the same recipes... resorting to magic theories". I hereby challenge the Pope to a debate about wh	2.8×	0	761	264	25
72	Dec 31, '17	This also happened in 2017. Every day.	2.8×	0	593	382	0
73	Nov 27, '16	Some men just want to watch the world burn. (Letter from Nikita Khrushchev to Fidel Castro, October 30, 1962)	2.8×	0	359	467	0
74	Mar 4, '21	Here is your annual reminder to be patient and wait for more data: The Guardian in May 2020: "Eastern Europe suffered less from coronavirus [than countries like Sweden, because of]	2.7×	0	744	236	54
75	May 22, '17	You know you've had a bad week when the Church of Satan feels a need to distance itself from you.	2.7×	0	517	421	0
76	Feb 20, '25	@RandPaul What? Is it warmongery to defend your country, family and property against an aggressor?	2.6×	21k	376	7	4
77	Dec 22, '23	All I want for Christmas is free market capitalism. Merry Christmas, all of you.	2.4×	19k	331	42	17
78	Jan 9, '21	A reminder: The right to speak freely is a negative right. No one may silence you or jail you for it. It’s not a claim on others, that they publish you, or take you seriously. It’s	2.2×	0	699	179	15
79	Nov 26, '16	"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." - Mark Twain	2.1×	0	491	288	0
80	Jun 21, '20	View post on X	2.1×	0	702	169	6
81	Jan 21, '19	Today Oxfam reminds us they see inequality as tragedy. So here's the annual reminder of what they consider success.	2.0×	0	498	228	8
82	Feb 7, '17	"Thank you industrialization, steel mill, power station and chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books" - Hans Rosling	2.0×	0	428	284	0
83	Mar 14, '25	Wow! I just got the final cover for my upcoming book. Looks pretty good, don’t you think?	1.9×	15k	355	22	47
84	Feb 24, '22	Don't forget who they are and what they said. The nationalist populists are not western patriots, they are Putin's fellow travellers and betrayers of western ideals of liberal demo	1.8×	0	531	157	8
85	Feb 26, '22	View post on X	1.8×	0	654	116	7
86	Nov 6, '20	Who wore it better?	1.8×	0	585	129	5
87	Apr 18, '20	Fascinating data on consumption last week by a leading Nordic bank. Liberal Sweden is suffering. Our lockdown neighbours are crashing.	1.7×	0	390	182	23
88	Aug 16, '18	Fox News claims that Denmark is a socialist country. Here is the economic freedom ranking from conservative Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal.	1.7×	0	436	197	3
89	May 26, '20	This pandemic is a trailer for a world of deglobalization. Turns out it's a horror movie.	1.7×	0	454	170	13
90	Nov 25, '22	Do you remember @BrankoMilan's Elephant Chart, revealing unequal rewards and the rise of the 1%? Since then, the elephant has lost its trunk. Since 2008, incomes of the poorest inc	1.7×	0	453	120	54
91	May 6, '21	Some of you asked if sanctions explain Venezuela's collapse. No:	1.6×	0	468	136	30
92	Jan 19, '21	Trump just claimed his tariffs were a success, without providing any numbers. Here are the numbers.	1.3×	0	334	127	20
93	Nov 10, '19	Venezuela – from riches to rags.	1.3×	0	343	146	14
94	Feb 21, '22	Putin’s speech right now.	1.2×	0	390	98	18
95	Nov 9, '20	1) Senior VP Kathrin Jansen: Pfizer was “never part of the Warp Speed. We have never taken any money from the U.S. government”, because "I wanted to liberate our scientists from an	1.2×	0	425	64	5
96	Nov 2, '20	So, after 4 years with Tariff Man, are you tired of winning yet?	1.1×	0	339	85	16
97	May 6, '21	"Venezuelans now poorer than Haitians" #SocialismInFiveWords	1.0×	0	372	79	0
98	Apr 25, '20	That settles it. Ricky Gervais is not a funny guy, but just a time traveller who has stolen his jokes from future comedians.	1.0×	0	365	70	6
99	Jun 18, '20	I would like a leader of the free world who condemns China’s despotism and labour camps, but welcomes its cheap solar panels and washing machines. Not the other way around.	0.9×	0	321	67	1
100	Apr 24, '22	Vive la France! 🇫🇷	0.8×	0	324	40	0

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