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Open
This episode reveals how openness—in trade, ideas, and human connection—has been the fundamental, often invisible, driver of all human progress and prosperity throughout history.
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“This episode reveals how openness—in trade, ideas, and human connection—has been the fundamental, often invisible, driver of all human progress and prosperity throughout history.”
— Johan Norberg, Open
Globalism, Economic History, Innovation, Societal Progress
If you often find yourself weighing the costs of global interconnectedness against the comfort of local familiarity, this can help you see the deeper forces at play.
Johan Norberg, a historian and author, meticulously traces the often-overlooked historical patterns that reveal how human societies have consistently thrived through connection and exchange, not isolation.