{"slug": "adam-smith", "label": "Adam Smith", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9381", "qid": "Q9381", "description": "Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1723, 1790], "span_label": ["1723 CE", "1790 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "edinburgh", "label": "Edinburgh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "scottish-people", "label": "Scottish people", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1723, "year_label": "1723 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "June 16", "text": "June 16 – (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist, philosopher (d. 1790)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350255771#Births", "title": "1723", "revid": 1350255771, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1740, "year_label": "1740 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 7", "text": "July 7 – Adam Smith sets out from Scotland to take up a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362733434#July–September", "title": "1740", "revid": 1362733434, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1748, "year_label": "1748 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361284371#Date_unknown", "title": "1748", "revid": 1361284371, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#Date_unknown", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1752, "year_label": "1752 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 22", "text": "April 22 – Adam Smith, appointed the year before as a professor of logic, is unanimously elected by the faculty of the University of Glasgow to be the new Professor of Moral Philosophy \"on the express condition that he would content himself with the emoluments of the Logic Professorship until 10 October\", in that the 1751-1752 salary budgeted for the job has already been distributed to faculty members who had substituted for the previous moral philosophy professor, Thomas Craigie; from April to October, Smith's remuneration for teaching moral philosophy is limited to fees paid directly to him by his students (a half guinea per semester for the public class, and a guinea per semester for the private class). Smith's lectures on ethics are first published in 1759 in his work The Theory of Moral Sentiments.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362993688#April–June", "title": "1752", "revid": 1362993688, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1759, "year_label": "1759 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Adam Smith publishes his Theory of Moral Sentiments, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354612770#Date_unknown", "title": "1759", "revid": 1354612770, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1776, "year_label": "1776 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March 9", "text": "March 9 – Scottish economist Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365773863#March–April", "title": "1776", "revid": 1365773863, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1790, "year_label": "1790 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist, philosopher (b. 1723)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361336081#Deaths", "title": "1790", "revid": 1361336081, "section": "Deaths"}}]}