# Adam Smith 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 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/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-political-economy/ warn against slogan Smith. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith prints the 1778 customs commission. TMS at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67363 prints sympathy inside an 18th-century household. Glasgow at https://www.gla.ac.uk/ is a tobacco-era university as later heritage tells it. Liberty Fund’s Glasgow Edition at https://www.libertyfund.org/books/adam-smith/ 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/ and Panmure House at https://www.panmurehouse.org/ are access. Cambridge Companion pages supply limits. NPG at https://www.npg.org.uk/ 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. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: 1776-03-10 WN prints colonial monopoly and Navigation-style restraints as public political economy; 1778-01-01 Smith is appointed a Commissioner of Customs in Scotland; 1776-03-13 WN’s pin-factory pages print extreme division of labour as a public manufacturing recipe; 1776-03-14 WN Book V prints mental mutilation of the divided labourer and parish education as a paired heading; 1776-03-12 WN and later-printed lectures discuss slavery as inefficient yet historically entrenched; 1776-03-11 WN prints the East India Company as a sovereign-company hybrid; 1776-03-15 WN prints settlement and poor-law restraints on labour movement; 1776-03-17 WN prints American colonial war-finance as a fiscal drain heading; 1763-01-01 Glasgow lectures on jurisprudence were taught in life; student notes are later public, not his authorised book; 1759-04-01 The Theory of Moral Sentiments is printed as a public moral-philosophy book; 1776-03-09 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is printed in London; 1752-01-10 Smith holds the Glasgow logic then moral-philosophy chair as a public teaching office; 1759-04-15 TMS prints the impartial spectator as a public check on self-love; 1776-03-16 WN prints a public case against exclusive companies as harmful to consumers. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. This catalog keeps only instruments dated to the lifetime (or received lifetime date) of Adam Smith. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. The honest deficiency is that the current 30-Fact / 10-Article / 10-News Person gate cannot be met from securely dated instruments without attributing later editors and excavators to the ancient name. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation. ## Dated facts - 1790: Smith orders unpublished manuscripts burned shortly before his death. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-paper-burning-1790. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith. - 1790: The sixth edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments is published with substantial new parts. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-tms-sixth-1790. Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67363, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/. - 1787: Smith is elected Rector of the University of Glasgow. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-rector-1787. Sources: https://www.gla.ac.uk/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith. - 1783: Smith is a founding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-frse-1783. Sources: https://rse.org.uk/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith. - 1778: Smith is appointed a Commissioner of Customs in Scotland. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-customs-commissioner. Sources: https://www.gla.ac.uk/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith. - 1776: Smith’s letter on Hume’s death is published as a public eulogy. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-hume-eulogy-1776. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/. - 1776: WN prints American colonial war-finance as a fiscal drain heading. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-american-loss-fiscal. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300. - 1776: WN prints a public case against exclusive companies as harmful to consumers. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-critique-monopoly. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-political-economy/, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300. - 1776: WN prints settlement and poor-law restraints on labour movement. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-poor-laws-adjacent. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-political-economy/, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300. - 1776: WN Book V prints mental mutilation of the divided labourer and parish education as a paired heading. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-book-v-stupefaction. Sources: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521770599, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300. - 1776: WN’s pin-factory pages print extreme division of labour as a public manufacturing recipe. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-division-labour-deskilling. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300. - 1776: WN and later-printed lectures discuss slavery as inefficient yet historically entrenched. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-slavery-passages. Sources: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/adam-smith