Today’s markets have a scope of international trade that would have been unimaginable even a few decades ago. How does globalization benefit us? How are the ideas about markets and morality in Adam Smith’s book, The Wealth of Nations, written nearly 240 years ago, relevant today?

Adam Smith’s observations, written in the 18th century, regarding the benefits of free trade and the nature of wealth, are valid in the 21st Century. How have his notions of the nature of wealth and the movement of capital influenced today's world?