Autarky

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. ❋ Papabear (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All this blather about “foreign oil” reeks of the assumption of the superiority of autarky over comparative advantage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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 (2011)

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. . . ❋ Jennifer Rubin (2011)

This kind of economic autarky found its counterpart on the political front in the principle of "self-determination." ❋ Fabio Rafael Fiallo (2011)

Pursuit of autarky (which we can narrow to “energy independence”) is foolish and impoverishes anyone who tries it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was also tied to some backward protectionist ideas, including the goal of autarky and immunity to trade wars. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pursuit of autarky which we can narrow to “energy independence” is foolish and impoverishes anyone who tries it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Iran is not self-sufficient, it is no autarky, it needs to import many the necessities of life in a modern society and economy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The inevitable result is autarky, a subsistence economy, no savings and public dependency on the state. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since we are not an autarky, eventually that sort of behavior is going to bite us in the collective keister. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Or what about the ludicrous idea (from your recommended ‘A Blueprint for Survival’) that we ought to pursue some Hitlerian policy of agricultural autarky, by refusing to important anything because it might be too expensive or lead to greater inequalities? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The inevitable result is autarky, a subsistence economy, no savings, and public dependency on the state. ❋ Unknown (2009)