Autarchy

Economic autarchy ("autarchy" is just philosopher-speak for "self-sufficiency") has a long pedigree in Thomistic (the most prominent strain of Catholic) philosophy. ❋ Bill Powell (2009)

And, as one of our readers points out, what is “fiscal autarchy” other than another term for "fiscal sovereignty", the word "autarchy" and yes, I did have to look it up in the dictionary meaning "absolute power". ❋ Richard (2005)

Another way to true post-industrial decline, which is currently in vogue in certain circles, is to resort to the old isolationist notion of autarchy. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2010)

Libertarians who insist that policies based on economic fallacies should be abolished point to the dismal nature of states in the error-tail I mentioned vs the far more livable ones more in line with their preferred policies (often the same states that have undergone economic reform, like Franco's autarchy and the more free-trading "Spanish miracle"). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nothing is wanting in this autarchy, a completely self-sufficient closed system. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Again with generations of hindsight, the true lost chances may have been the failure to devise a generous postwar financial settlement (through which American support might have reduced conflict between France and Germany) and the failure to weave the United States into a global institutional network (thus possibly slowing the rush to protectionist autarchy that hastened the world into depression a decade later). ❋ Gideon Rose (2010)

All these results of changing energy use portend result in increased autarchy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

'' It is no accident that the Labour Party of 1964 should share this craving for autarchy, for economic self-sufficiency, with the pre-war ❋ Unknown (2009)

Where nationalism (sometimes more accurately tribalism) develops, it is often accompanied by efforts to attain economic autarchy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is economic autarchy: the state must be self-sufficient in this way. ❋ Bill Powell (2009)

That subject has been known for some time as economic autarchy. ❋ Bill Powell (2009)

Aristotle based his argument in favor of economic autarchy and, indeed, autarchy in general upon the nature of the state itself. ❋ Bill Powell (2009)

I think that, unquestionably, this great Catholic tradition of economic autarchy that this little essay has barely touched on reveals an answer of "Unequivocally, yes." ❋ Bill Powell (2009)

Among the more notable characteristics of the Khmer Rouge and Democratic Kampuchea were autarchy, authoritarianism, brutality, secrecy, reliance on willpower, extreme communalism, obsession with purity and purging, upholding of the poorest peasants as the true Khmers, anti-Vietnamese hysteria, and extreme nationalism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As a result of the Depression, autarchy and bilateralism were the order of the day in the 1930s, with consequent pressure to circumscribe the major oil companies. ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)

I may add that a commenter from Xymphora who has been banned from commenting here for a while – a certain Ken Hoop – has been so jarred by reading the above exchange that he has posted an extremely revealing remark, to the effect that Buchananism is not “libertarian” at all, but a matter of autarchy and isolationism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The creation of I.R.I., the autarchy, were all policies shared by the government and the industrialists. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Political and economic autarchy was one of the most obvious hallmarks of Democratic Kampuchea. ❋ Unknown (2008)