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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is printed in London

Strahan and Cadell 1776, later Gutenberg, is a completed public book. In the causal graph this event sets in motion Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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Strahan and Cadell 1776, later Gutenberg, is a completed public book. Twin of monopoly and deskilling rows: this stores access to the text. 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

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.44 · 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.Britannica — Adam SmithEncyclopaedia Britannica · 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

Official page: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300 (opens in a new tab). Independent page: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith (opens in a new tab).

Causal path

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

  1. ActorAdam Smith
  2. contributed toFactAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is printed in London
  3. sets in motionDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is printed in London. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-wn-1776

https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-wn-1776

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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