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WN prints settlement and poor-law restraints on labour movement

Public WN discusses parish settlement as a brake on movement. In the causal graph this event strengthens Forced-Displacement Scale, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

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Public WN discusses parish settlement as a brake on movement. Analysis is not a statute he enacted. Medium confidence on unique causal weight. 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

Analysis is not a statute he enacted.

Who was responsible

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

  • Adam Smith

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · 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 forced-displacement-scale is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from WN prints settlement and poor-law restraints on labour movement at 1776-03-15, 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 settlement and poor-law restraints on labour movement
  3. strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). WN prints settlement and poor-law restraints on labour movement. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-poor-laws-adjacent

https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-poor-laws-adjacent

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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