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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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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