Smith holds the Glasgow logic then moral-philosophy chair as a public teaching office
Dated 10 January 1752: Smith holds the Glasgow logic then moral-philosophy chair as a public teaching office. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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Glasgow pages print the professorship. A public chair is an education path. He did not file a 2020 URL. 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
Glasgow pages print the professorship. A public chair is an education path. He did not file a 2020 URL.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Adam Smith
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.36 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactSmith holds the Glasgow logic then moral-philosophy chair as a public teaching office
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 10 January 1752 · verified
Glasgow pages print the professorship. A public chair is an education path.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.45 × 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 0.16 (weight 0.45 × 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 0.14 (weight 0.45 × 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.University of Glasgow — Smith professorship heritageUniversity of Glasgow · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Adam SmithEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Adam Smith did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorAdam Smith
- contributed toFactSmith holds the Glasgow logic then moral-philosophy chair as a public teaching office
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Smith holds the Glasgow logic then moral-philosophy chair as a public teaching office. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-glasgow-chair
https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-glasgow-chair
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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