Although it is no longer possible the desire to be an autarky is still strong.

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Finally, globalisation went into reverse as the first world war and the Great Depression pushed governments further towards autarky.

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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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Autarky used to be a bad word in international economics.

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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.

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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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But its talk of self-reliance has strains of autarky.

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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.

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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.

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