India is developing into an open-market economy, yet traces of its past autarkic policies remain.

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It has served as the model of the autarkic command economy that East bloc countries like Poland have largely been forced to emulate.

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But most Latin nations are in a crosscurrent, leaning toward a kind of autarkic socialism at the least and proto- communism at the worst.

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The Soviet Union has served as the model of the autarkic command economy that East bloc countries like Poland have traditionally been forced to emulate.

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There can't be many self-sufficient drunks in the world, autarkic alcoholics who never once have to burden the off-license but who simply press whatever fruit, flowers or vegetables are growing in their gardens and transform the juices into alcohol.

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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.

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