'autarkic' is a correct and usable word in written English
'Autarkic' means having a self-sufficient or self-governing economy, or being economically independent. It is often used to describe a country or a system that relies on its own resources and does not rely on external trade or aid. Example: The small island nation declared its intention to become autarkic, relying solely on its own agricultural and natural resources for economic stability.
Conservatives used to be anti-trade, in keeping with the autarkic and socialist sentiment of the revolution.
Thus the colonial experience led Indian leaders to turn to autarkic socialism.Nehru wanted an activist state to enact egalitarian laws, transfer land from the aristocracy to the peasants, and make India a great industrial power again.
It is time for China to abandon autarkic thinking and import more food.Last year the Communist Party pledged to let market forces play a decisive role in allocating resources such as water, land and electricity.
An institution to control foreign trade was created in 1946; an existing policy of import substitution deepened; the share of trade as a percentage of GDP continued to fall.These autarkic policies had deep roots.
Some MST leaders prefer the autarkic ways of Venezuela and Cuba.But at its purest, the doctrine of non-violence insists that the method is nearly as important as the message.
Under Mr Menem, today's Peronists, though still proclaiming that name, have abandoned its corporatist, autarkic reality.
Governments are in theory committed to market liberalisation and they know that autarkic nationalism would be toxic: they swallow it in small doses out of short-term political expediency or to curry favour with unions.In contrast, the forces driving companies to go global are relentless and all-embracing.
From the middle of the 15th century, China stopped sending naval and "treasure" fleets abroad; thereafter its trade policy varied, but was officially far less open, even autarkic.
"The idea that China was autarkic in this period is a ridiculous myth," says Mr Flynn.Still, say Mr O'Rourke and Mr Williamson, the effect of China's policy, especially on relative commodity prices, is worth quantifying.
Ten years ago, when the fall of the Berlin wall signalled the failure of communism and other forms of autarkic central planning, it looked as if a new chance had arrived for the 5 billion poor to join the world economy and improve their lives.
