Johan Norberg

From Athens to Sparta: How Trumpism Is Driving America’s Decline Civilizations commit suicide when they build walls against the outside world

At @theunpopulist.net by @johanknorberg.bsky.social: Unless America reverses course and rediscovers its openness and confidence, historians will mark this moment as when it followed other great civilizations down a suicidal path: open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

The Economist: The 40 best books published so far this year:

Without optimism, we won't reach our next golden age The most gratifying thing about studying golden ages, like ancient Athens, Rome, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic, is that you can’t help but be inspired by the re...

“In 200 years, the share of people in extreme poverty globally has been reduced from roughly 8 out of 10 to fewer than 1 out of 10. Life expectancy has shot up from 30 to 74. We have had a good run over these 200 years.” — @johanknorberg.bsky.social capx.co/without-opti...

How golden ages really start—and end The greatest civilisations of the past 3,000 years were the opposite of MAGA

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Incredible review of Peak Human in The Economist:

"Mr Norberg adds fresh details and provocative arguments [and] deftly punctures popular misconceptions.
Could a history book be more timely?
America’s president will not read it, but others should."

Peak Human – Atlantic Books Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; ...

More info here: atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak-hu...

Look! They sent me a copy of my new book and it’s beautiful. Perfect timing to be writing about the end of civilisations.

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Yes. And collective.

Måtte den aldrig sluta.

Vilket mysigt omdöme ändå. Tack.

The longest suicide note in economic history.

I’m deeply honored and truly overwhelmed to be this year’s recipient of the Hayek Book Prize — and to now find myself in the company of such distinguished thinkers as Thomas Sowell, Matt Ridley and Deirdre McCloskey.

Det charmigaste med ChatGPT är att den envisas med att hitta på bättre namn på mina gamla böcker. Vissa tror att AI är en frälsare, andra att den är en förgörare. I själva verket är den ett busfrö.

Nästan som gamla tider, ju.

Kul att vara här!