Adam Smith Revisited.: 250 Years of Ideas vs. Reality

By Alberto Gómez-Mejía

Two and a half centuries after The Wealth of Nations, the ideas of Adam Smith remain at the center of global debates on markets, power, and human behavior. Adam Smith Revisited re-examines Smith not as the inventor of capitalism, but as its first great interpreter-an observer of forces far older than modern economics itself.
Through a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Smith's work, the book places his ideas in conversation with later thinkers-from Karl Marx's theory of class conflict to John Maynard Keynes's defense of state intervention, Evolutionary Economics; from modern Behavioral Economics to contemporary research on Cognitive biases, Multilateralism, Economic Integration and global economic interdependence.
The book introduces the concept of "Conquest Capitalism," arguing that capitalism did not begin in the eighteenth century but emerged from deep evolutionary patterns of competition, exchange, asymmetry, and survival. Smith, writing in the turbulent world of empire, war, and expanding trade in 1776, provided the first systematic map of these dynamics.
Finally, the book explores the meaning of Smith's famous "invisible hand" in the age of artificial intelligence and algorithmic markets, asking a provocative question: what happens when economic coordination-and perhaps moral judgment itself-is increasingly delegated to machines?
Adam Smith Revisited is both a historical investigation and a forward-looking reflection on capitalism in the age of AI, geopolitical rivalry, and planetary constraints.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTGR2Y9F
• ISBN13: 9798251018639
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"