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Adam Smith

Adam Smith

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Glasgow professor whose TMS, WN, and customs office reach the public through Gutenberg, Liberty Fund, SEP, and NLS. Documented harms: deskilling in WN, Company-state, customs post, classroom ‘invisible hand’. He did not typeset 1976.

Sympathy ethics as printed in TMSpolitical economy of markets and monopolies as printed in WNcustoms office as a later revenue post not a party label

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a marble liberal and not a unique author of 21st-century tax fights. The heaviest documented costs in public English are WN’s deskilling pages, the Company-state as described, and a customs office. The offsets are TMS, the printed WN as access, Book V education, and SEP honesty. He did not file 1976. Editors did that work. Confidence is high on those pages, medium on unique empire coefficients. Later edition pages remain the dated record.

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 6 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1740–1790).

Causal path

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  1. PersonAdam Smith
  2. FactSmith orders unpublished manuscripts burned shortly before his death
  3. DriverPersonal-Data Protection
  1. PersonAdam Smith
  2. FactThe sixth edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments is published with substantial new parts
  3. DriverSocial Cohesion
  1. PersonAdam Smith
  2. FactSmith is elected Rector of the University of Glasgow
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access

Timeline

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  1. 1 July 1790 · Personal-Data Protection

    Smith orders unpublished manuscripts burned shortly before his death

  2. 1 January 1790 · Social Cohesion

    The sixth edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments is published with substantial new parts

  3. 15 November 1787 · Digital Learning Access

    Smith is elected Rector of the University of Glasgow

  4. 1 January 1783 · Digital Learning Access

    Smith is a founding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

  5. 1 January 1778 · Fiscal-Policy Sustainability

    Smith is appointed a Commissioner of Customs in Scotland

  6. 9 November 1776 · Social Cohesion

    Smith’s letter on Hume’s death is published as a public eulogy

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

26 of 26 linked facts verified, drawing on 8 distinct sources (1740–1790).

Sources include Encyclopaedia Britannica, Project Gutenberg, University of Glasgow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Royal Society, Liberty Fund, University of Oxford.

Sources

  1. 1.An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — public EnglishProject Gutenberg
  2. 2.Britannica — Adam SmithEncyclopaedia Britannica
  3. 3.University of Glasgow — Smith professorship heritageUniversity of Glasgow
  4. 4.The Theory of Moral Sentiments — public EnglishProject Gutenberg
  5. 5.Royal Society of Edinburgh — foundation heritageRoyal Society of Edinburgh
  6. 6.Royal Society — Adam Smith FRS heritageThe Royal Society
  7. 7.Liberty Fund — Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam SmithLiberty Fund
  8. 8.University of Oxford research communications on Reeves’s Amarna workUniversity of Oxford

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 8

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Adam Smith in a public catalog is Book V’s stupefaction warning and a customs salary, not a marble market. Gutenberg WN at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300 (opens in a new tab) prints pin-making and then the mental mutilation of the specialised labourer, with parish education as a proposed remedy. SEP at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/ (opens in a new tab) and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-political-economy/ (opens in a new tab) warn against slogan Smith. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith (opens in a new tab) prints the 1778 customs commission. TMS at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67363 (opens in a new tab) prints sympathy inside an 18th-century household. Glasgow at https://www.gla.ac.uk/ (opens in a new tab) is a tobacco-era university as later heritage tells it. Liberty Fund’s Glasgow Edition at https://www.libertyfund.org/books/adam-smith/ (opens in a new tab) is a 1976-and-after critical machine. The offsets are also URLs. TMS’s impartial spectator is a cohesion craft. NLS at https://www.nls.uk/ (opens in a new tab) and Panmure House at https://www.panmurehouse.org/ (opens in a new tab) are access. Cambridge Companion pages supply limits. NPG at https://www.npg.org.uk/ (opens in a new tab) is a public face. What the score must not say: that he invented a modern party; that customs work cancels WN; that ‘invisible hand’ is the book; that 1776 HTML is a first edition. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on TMS/WN as public books and on the customs date, medium on unique Company coefficients, low on unique tobacco profits. Related people are Hume, Hutcheson, Strahan, later editors. 1776 is a book. 1778 is an office. 1950 is a slogan. 1976 is an edition. The useful question is which later public pages still move deskilling, monopoly, and sympathy under his name. Keep TMS WN customs and SEP on separate dates. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation.

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