Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A policy of national self-sufficiency and nonreliance on imports or economic aid.
- noun A self-sufficient region or country.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun economic independence as a national policy.
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- noun National economic
self-sufficiency . - noun The state of personal
self-sufficiency . - noun An enclosed
ecosystem .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun economic independence as a national policy
Etymologies
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Examples
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I take "autarky" in the sense that one must be able to produce enough to pay for what one consumes, which condemns the American economy as it presently is.
Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008
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Dr. Woods describes a distributivism which advocates that “people withdraw from the division of labor of a market society and retreat instead into a kind of autarky … The emphasis here is on having as many people as possible be owners of their own land and of whatever means of production they employ”8.
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George Will on ABC's This Week observed, All modern tyrannies have depended on intellectual autarky, being able to seal of the consciousness of their people from the outside world. . .
Will Obama now reverse course on Iran? Jennifer Rubin 2011
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The North Korean people are isolated from the contemporary global community, and they will not soon be rid of juche ideology and the folly of autarky.
Bernard Rowan: North Korea's Distant Sun Bernard Rowan 2011
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All this blather about “foreign oil” reeks of the assumption of the superiority of autarky over comparative advantage.
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The North Korean people are isolated from the contemporary global community, and they will not soon be rid of juche ideology and the folly of autarky.
Bernard Rowan: North Korea's Distant Sun Bernard Rowan 2011
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This kind of economic autarky found its counterpart on the political front in the principle of "self-determination."
The Demise of Third Worldism Fabio Rafael Fiallo 2011
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Pursuit of autarky (which we can narrow to “energy independence”) is foolish and impoverishes anyone who tries it.
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The point of Turning Oil in Salt is not to exit world oil markets (a ruse they deride as autarky) but to develop a dynamic market of many oil alternatives -- both alcohol fuels and electricity -- so that we may import oil for the mix if we want but stay resilient to the shocks that oil markets provide.
Anne Butterfield: Make Oil Obsolete by Turning It into Salt 2010
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The point of Turning Oil in Salt is not to exit world oil markets (a ruse they deride as autarky) but to develop a dynamic market of many oil alternatives -- both alcohol fuels and electricity -- so that we may import oil for the mix if we want but stay resilient to the shocks that oil markets provide.
Anne Butterfield: Make Oil Obsolete by Turning It into Salt 2010
john commented on the word autarky
"India was emerging at that time from a long spell of economic autarky and stagnation, in which one had to reserve long-distance telephone calls as if they were tables at a posh restaurant, days in advance."
The New York Times, December 25, 2007
December 26, 2007