Definition of "autarky" []

• A policy of national self-sufficiency and nonreliance on imports or economic aid. (noun)
• A self-sufficient region or country. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "This kind of economic autarky found its counterpart on the political front in the principle of "self-determination.""