Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Absolute power; autocracy; self-government.
- noun Self-sufficiency; independence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Self-sufficiency, especially economic self-sufficiency as applied to nations.
- noun same as
autarky .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A condition of absolute power.
- noun An
autocratic government; anautocracy . - noun Self-government; a condition of economic self-sufficiency or national independence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun economic independence as a national policy
- noun a political system governed by a single individual
Etymologies
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Examples
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Economic autarchy ("autarchy" is just philosopher-speak for "self-sufficiency") has a long pedigree in Thomistic (the most prominent strain of Catholic) philosophy.
Archive 2009-05-01 Bill Powell 2009
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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".
The "unknown" law enforcers Richard 2005
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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: On the nostalgia for manufacturing Robert Teitelman 2010
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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").
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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: On the nostalgia for manufacturing Robert Teitelman 2010
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Nothing is wanting in this autarchy, a completely self-sufficient closed system.
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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).
How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010
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All these results of changing energy use portend result in increased autarchy.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 16~ Energy in a Contracting System 2009
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'' It is no accident that the Labour Party of 1964 should share this craving for autarchy, for economic self-sufficiency, with the pre-war
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Where nationalism (sometimes more accurately tribalism) develops, it is often accompanied by efforts to attain economic autarchy.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 8~ Changing Claims on the Distribution of Energy Surpluses 2009
qms commented on the word autarchy
Good people be silent and hark ye!
Believe not the goblin’s malarkey!
He’ll wheedle and flatter
But words do not matter.
He means to construct an autarchy.
July 3, 2018