As part of the Ukraine Global Faculty, an online lecture by the writer, teacher and director, senior researcher at the Cato Institute (Washington) and the European Center for International Political Economy (Brussels) Johan Norberg “New & improved: How innovations happen” will be held.
Dear students, graduate students and teachers!
As part of the Ukraine Global Faculty, an online lecture by the writer, teacher and director, senior researcher at the Cato Institute (Washington) and the European Center for International Political Economy (Brussels) Johan Norberg “New & improved: How innovations happen” will be held.
Date and time: December 16, 2022, beginning at 2 p.m.
In the lecture, you will learn why innovation is the key to growth and prosperity. Examining various examples of innovation from history – from the bicycle to the semiconductor – the lecturer will explain why innovation requires freedom, creativity, and cooperation. And it will also tell why we are often skeptical of everything new.
We invite you to participate. Register!
About the lecturer:
Johan Norberg – the main facts about his professional life:
- specializes in issues ranging from freedom and progress to entrepreneurship, globalization, and the hidden dichotomies that shape the world. He is an experienced and renowned speaker from Stockholm to Sydney, from Buenos Aires to Beijing and from Cairo to Capitol Hill;
- received the Walter Judd Freedom Award (2018), which was previously awarded to such luminaries as Garry Kasparov and Ronald Reagan;
- wrote more than 20 books on the global economy, entrepreneurship, and progress. For example: the book “In Defense of Global Capitalism” (2003) was published in more than 25 countries, and the book “Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future” (2016) was chosen as the Book of the Year by The Economist, Guardian and Observer and translated into 20 languages. The Economist called it a “tornado of evidence…an explosion of common sense”;
- regularly writes and hosts documentaries on development, economics and current affairs: The Next Financial Crisis, Power to the People, Free or Equal and Economic Freedom in Action: Changing Lives. His latest documentary, Sweden: Lessons for America? about how you can learn from the successes and mistakes of your home country;
- for his international work, Norberg received the Distinguished Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial Award from the American Atlas Foundation and the Gold Medal from the German Hayek Stiftung, which he shared with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.