autarky

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See, this assumes that free trade is the norm and autarky isn’t.

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economic independence as a national policy

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noun

economic independence as a national policy

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for autarky.

noun

economic independence as a national policy

Example sentences

See, this assumes that free trade is the norm and autarky isn’t.

MacPorts is an autarky -- you get a duplicate copy of zlib, OpenSSL, Python, etc.

A Mars colony would obviously not be an autarky.

Other countries may retaliate on other goods and it quickly spirals from free trade to autarky.

The riches that come from a worldwide division of labor have rightly seduced us away from many of our dreams of autarky.

"During the Second World War the US not only managed economic autarky"Suppose someone said that's completely untrue, could you back your assertion up?

I feel as though this is a type of modern autarky, and it gets shamed by those of us whose dreams and ambitions involve building useful or cool things with available technology.

And they were not inheriting millions of half-starved, ill-educated, brain-washed people in a country which has been living in autarky for decades.

At times the world is too messy and we'd like to take our ball and go home - let everyone else think what they like, the US land mass and economy is large enough for us to function as an autarky in an unconnected world.

How are you going to measure the demise if not comparing to the closest thing to a peer?And I disagree too, and not focusing only on China: is there any other country, in the Earth, closer to true autarky, than the US?