Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations : The Graphic Novel by Eamonn Butler

Illustrated by Max Rangeley and Partners

First Published by The Adam Smith Institute in association with the Foundation for Economic Education

Released in August 2026

Published with the Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney.

Paperback, full-colour, 92 pages

ISBN: 9781923568433

Adam Smith as you’ve never read him before.

The book that helped invent modern economics is now a lively, witty and wonderfully illustrated graphic novel. Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations: The Graphic Novel takes one of the most important books ever written and turns it into an entertaining journey through trade, markets, specialisation, productivity, value, wages, profit, government meddling and the famous “invisible hand”.

With humour, colour and plenty of Scottish spirit, Eamonn Butler brings Adam Smith down from the dusty shelf and into the modern world. Readers meet kings, merchants, workers, economists, spiders, mice and the occasional bewildered philosopher, all helping explain why free exchange, enterprise and cooperation have shaped prosperity across the centuries.

Perfect for students, general readers, business people and anyone who has always meant to read The Wealth of Nations but never quite managed it, this graphic novel makes Smith’s great ideas clear, memorable and fun. Economics has rarely been this painless, or this entertaining.

Dr Eamonn Butler is Co-Founder of the Adam Smith Institute in London and author of a number of introductory books on economists and economic topics, including Adam Smith: A Primer, and The Condensed Wealth of Nations.