Although it is no longer possible the desire to be an autarky is still strong.
Should the world descend into autarky, America would be better equipped than China for survival on reduced means.
Finally, globalisation went into reverse as the first world war and the Great Depression pushed governments further towards autarky.
Only in the later Imperial period, when Rome became an autarky, did rulers begin to build the monumental structures that Malone admires.
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Mr Wei's point is one of cultural autarky: nobody outside China is in a position to interpret, let alone understand, Chinese culture.
Many in the government dream of an economic autarky, powered by gas.
The number of Greeks who believe in Bolshevik-style autarky may be small.
For that, the autarky enshrined in the North's guiding principle of Juche, or self-reliance, needs to make way for engagement with the outside world.
Will you gently inform them of what autarky looks like?
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But the upheavals of this stage of globalization--nearly always associated, by the way, with bad official policies somewhere, if not where the suffering is--has created a new constituency for autarky.
At the turn of this century, it looked as though China would have the field pretty much to itself, having brought 250m out of poverty since its autarky ended in 1978.
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At the other extreme is a conscientious attempt to create a kind of financial autarky, a space in which the government can steal and squander its citizens' wealth without the inconvenience of allowing them any alternative.
As Russia and the other countries of the former Soviet Union move their economies away from the inefficient autarky of the Soviet era towards a more efficient integration with the world economy, considerations of trade and investment will prevail over other forces.
Facts on the ground are superseding this: to save Greece, you would have to do Euro bonds, and a Marshall Plan, take losses on the debt, and - maybe - even allow some degree of temporary autarky to overcome the social crisis.
But autarky an economic system closed to outside trading partners was a central principle of Indian economics until the reforms that began in the 1990s began to liberate Indians from poverty by the millions and build a large and growing middle class.
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