WN Book V prints mental mutilation of the divided labourer and parish education as a paired heading
Dated 14 March 1776: WN Book V prints mental mutilation of the divided labourer and parish education as a paired heading. In the causal graph this event weakens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — a worsening welfare path.
Read the full account
The same public WN prints that specialised labour can destroy a worker’s mind unless the state educates. A printed harm inside the productivity book. Adam Smith did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.
Context
Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.
Adam Smith Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.
Adam Smith’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Conventional years are 1723–1790.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Adam Smith
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactWN Book V prints mental mutilation of the divided labourer and parish education as a paired heading
- weakensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 14 March 1776 · verified
The same public WN prints that specialised labour can destroy a worker’s mind unless the state educates.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Cambridge Companion to Adam SmithCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
- 2.An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — public EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official page: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300 (opens in a new tab). Independent page: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521770599 (opens in a new tab).
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorAdam Smith
- contributed toFactWN Book V prints mental mutilation of the divided labourer and parish education as a paired heading
- weakensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). WN Book V prints mental mutilation of the divided labourer and parish education as a paired heading. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-book-v-stupefaction
https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-book-v-stupefaction
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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