The veranito rests on financial controls, autarchy and a very weak exchange rate.
It is a stretch to refer to Thoreau's stay at Walden Pond as two years of solitude lived in "perfect autarchy… walking, reading and writing".
Mussolini, unlike Hitler did not bother to fight modernism, his strict autarchy simply made importation of anything foreign, including art ideas and art magazines very difficult.
1937 Mussolini in Autarchy Drive ROME — Important progress has already been made toward putting in practice plans for national autarchy developed over the past five months, Premier Mussolini told the Central Corporative Committee at its opening session today [Oct. 11].
"The whole nation must acquire an autarchy mentality and be willing to renounce products which are not indispensable and which can be replaced by our products with advantage to our trade balance," Signor Mussolini said.
"We aim to reach full energy autarchy in the next 10 years," Mr. Zotter said.
In other words, can the city be reimagined as commons, or is commoning the realm of tiny acts of autarchy and resistance?
No doubt this counted against them when the Soviet Union took a sharp rightwards turn towards nationalism and autarchy in the 1930s.
No situation except complete autarchy would give you more control than this.
Here it all is, though draped in the banners of the prophet of Islam and his family: state-controlled industry, neglected agriculture, urbanisation, economic autarchy, suppressing the tribes and ethnic minorities, state handouts, mass education and the release of women from seclusion.
And is it not understandable that some of the young... are trying, with their autarchy, their turbans and their women in black, to have nothing to do with it?" A Fortune-Teller Told Me became an immediate bestseller in several countries and gave its author a measure of financial freedom he had not previously enjoyed.
