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Just as his parents' marriage is finally breaking up in the summer of 1964, his father heads off to register black voters in Mississippi, a trip which ended in his being beaten by racist obstructers.
But, alas, Irwin nowhere engages the problem of the role of the state as anything but an obstructer of trade flows; certainly a curious omission, since traditional free-trade theory, classically exemplified by Adam Smith, is primarily concerned with what the economy can do for the overall betterment of its citizens, while mercantilist and neo-mercantilist doctrines limit their object to the prosperity of the state.
 
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