In Defence of Global Capitalism systematically challenges and refutes the assertions of the anti-globalisers and shows that free trade and free markets provide the best opportunities for the world’s poor.

With hard facts and statistics, Norberg explains why globalisation is good. Freer trade has boosted living standards and life expectancy have risen in the developing world, whilst hunger, infant mortality and inequality have diminished.

Norberg argues that the world needs more capitalism and globalisation, not less.

“Giving clear and verifiable sources, he [Norberg] nails one by one the fallacies and selective statistics that are used by the anti-capitalist protesters.”
--Samuel Brittan, The Financial Times

“At times [In Defence of Global Capitalism is] a brilliant collection of arguments against the commonest allegations of globalisation’s pernicious effects on the poorest of the world’s inhabitants.”
--Dagens Industri

Johan Norberg of Timbro, Sweden’s leading public policy think tank, spoke on March 21st.

Mr. Norberg is a 29 year old former anarchist who is the author of In Defence of Global Capitalism, a bestseller that has changed the globalisation debate within Sweden.

Norberg “punctures many myths about capitalism and globalization, though not by the usual means of clichés and doctrinal tenets, but by presenting data and systematically scrutinising assertions and declarations,” said Ingemar Mundebo, Sweden's former Finance Minister.

Norberg has even won respect from the Swedish Left Party. Johan Lönnroth, economic spokesman for the party, told reporters: “Norberg is right in claiming that the global distribution of incomes has on the whole become more equal."