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WN prints a public case against exclusive companies as harmful to consumers

Dated 16 March 1776: WN prints a public case against exclusive companies as harmful to consumers. In the causal graph this event weakens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — an improving welfare path.

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Twin of describing company power. 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.

Why it matters

Twin of describing company power.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Adam Smith

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Adam Smith’s Political EconomyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — public EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Driver institutional-corruption is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from WN prints a public case against exclusive companies as harmful to consumers at 1776-03-16, not because a standing driver list needed coverage. Official page: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300 (opens in a new tab). Independent page: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-political-economy/ (opens in a new tab).

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAdam Smith
  2. contributed toFactWN prints a public case against exclusive companies as harmful to consumers
  3. weakensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). WN prints a public case against exclusive companies as harmful to consumers. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-critique-monopoly

https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-critique-monopoly

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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