Abstract
Autarky means self-sufficiency, especially economic self-sufficiency. The term appears most frequently in economic literature, both as a theoretical construct deployed in the theory of comparative advantage, and as a policy of economic self-sufficiency.
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Evans, D. (2018). Autarky. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_574
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