The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World

In his new book, The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World, Johan Norberg highlights how capitalism and markets encourage a constant discovery process. Despite capitalism’s success in creating global prosperity, much of the world continues to believe resources are finite and politics is necessary to reallocate them. Even with two decades of global unrest — in the pandemic, war in Europe, financial crises, and the rise of populism — human well-being is at an all-time high. 

Please join CEI for a discussion of why global capitalism is the only path forward for an improving world with author Johan Norberg, in conversation with Kent Lassman.

When: ​​​​​​12:00pm – 1:30pm
Monday, October 23, 2023
Luncheon followed by book forum. 

Where: Competitive Enterprise Institute
1310 L St NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20005

Questions: [email protected] or 202.331.2764

Order your copy of The Capitalist Manifesto here.
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Johan Norberg is a Swedish author, lecturer and documentary filmmaker. He is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and CEI’s 2019 Julian L. Simon Memorial Award Winner. Norberg is the author and editor of more than 20 books, including In Defense of Global Capitalism, Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, and Open: The Story of Human Progress. He received his M. A. in the History of Ideas from the University of Stockholm. 

Kent Lassman is host of the online event series at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. As president and CEO, he leads a feisty team devoted to radical reforms of an unaccountable regulatory state. Lassman has interviewed guests include leading academics such as Annie Duke, Casey Mulligan, Cass Sunstein, and Bart Wilson, government officials such as Senator Mike Lee, then-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and then-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, as well as prominent authors such as Marian Tupy and Jonathan Rauch.