Self-reliance and autarchy are discarded options in today's world, be it for tackling terrorism or underdevelopment. |
Every medieval abbey had a vegetable garden where the monks grew the plants needed to live in autarchy. |
Rapid economic growth fueled by foreign credits gradually gave way to economic autarchy accompanied by wrenching austerity and severe political repression. |
And while the distribution of that prosperity is often unequal and unjust, it's hard to see how a retreat to autarchy would make it any less unjust. |
In other words, can the city be reimagined as commons, or is commoning the realm of tiny acts of autarchy and resistance? |
Others advocated autarchy, that is, firmly basing the German economy in Central Europe and securing its raw materials through barter agreements. |