Globalisation is Good - Johan Norberg on Globalisation(full video)

these protesters believe they are the Defenders of democracy and

freedom over the past decade Millions have joined the anti-globalization movement to prevent the spread of global capitalism we all want a better world free from poverty and Injustice but good intentions don't make the world a better place in this film I am going to explain why I believe that the anti-globalization movement is ignorant

and dangerously

[Music] wrong the protesters claim that globalization creates poverty they are wrong all countries used to be poor it's only in this new era of modernization that countries have started to escape destitution in the past 50 years 3 billion people have been lifted out of poverty this is historically unique far from making the world a

poorer and more unfair place my research as a writer has convinced me that global capitalism could make the whole world as wealthy and free as Europe is today if only we we let it in fact poverty is on the way out in those countries that have integrated into the global [Music] economy 150 years ago my country Sweden

was poorer than most African countries are today and this Bay was little more than a dump for Stockholm's excrement and garbage but we embraced globalization by which I mean a free market economy based on the right to start a business and trade without restriction and just look at our wealth today I'm setting out on a journey first