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Foreign Trade
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Russia conducted an offand-on policy of self-sufficiency or autarky. According to Michael Kaser's figures, export volumes rose...War II, Russia no longer pursued such an extreme policy of autarky. Export volumes rose every year, reaching 4.6 times the...
Bhagwati, Jagdish
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...by ambivalence with respect to the superiority of trade over autarky. It had been pointed out that when domestic distortions such...there was no guarantee that free trade would be superior to autarky. Bhagwati and Ramaswami demonstrated that once an appropriate...
Industrialization, Rapid
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...thrust would be to build an indigenous heavy industrial base and early self-sufficiency in all industrial goods, and more autarky. The high level of forced savings would minimize consumption and hence provide for higher rate of investment, faster growth...
Most-Favored-Nation Principle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...to develop the nation's resources and secure neutral rights internationally. Leaders of the early republic did not seek autarky (that is, national economic self-sufficiency and independence). Indeed, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, for...
Sociology, Latin American
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...from opening their countries to multinational corporations. Consequently, they recommended either socialist revolution or autarky; that is, delinking from the global economy as the best means to promote national development. Critics of dependency theory...
world trade and world economy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...Japan, Italy, and Germany, saw the solution to their relatively weak position in the world economy in pursuing ‘autarky’, or self-sufficiency, cutting off dependence on the world economy. They also sought a solution to their shortages...
Import Substitution
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...centers; and heavy taxation on agricultural exports. Therefore, one could argue that import substitution results in economic autarky. Despite widespread enthusiasm in the 1940s and 1950s, levels of economic success among governments that pursued ISI policies...
Trade
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...quotas, or other barriers to trade), these must be the price differences that would prevail in the absence of trade (autarky). Compare the relative price (of, for example, wine in terms of cheese) at home to the same relative price abroad in...
Inegalitarianism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...including very undesirable things such as suppression of thought and dissent. Second, equality in a single society requires autarky and risks the selective emigration of the especially productive; both of these effects are likely to be economically crippling...
Globalization
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business ...power underlies it: political power expressed as force. Trade-based policies in the past have been balanced by policies of autarky, a word Merriam-Webster defines to mean "national economic self-sufficiency; a policy of establishing independence of...

Dictionary entries related to "Autarky"

autarky
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology autarky self-sufficiency. XVII. — Gr. autárkeia , f. autárkēs , f. autós AUTO- + arkeîn suffice; see -Y3 .
mercantilism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...has become a ‘positive nuisance’ since it is commonly confused with nationalism, protectionism, and autarky. It refers to the economic theories and strategic thinking which guided relationships between states in early-modern Europe...
Schacht, Hjalmar
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...7, but lost this post and the presidency of the national bank for opposing Hitler's and Göring' more extreme autarky/rearmament schemes. Because of loose contacts with conservative resistance circles he was imprisoned after the July Plot...

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Replacing the autarky factor prices with the corresponding post-trade prices: an extension of Deardorff's factor-proportions theory of trade.
Magazine article from: American Economist; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...have to do with the measurability of the autarky factor prices which are used to calculate...which is based on the proposition that autarky factor prices are related to the physical...1) a systematic relation between the autarky prices of the factors of production and...
Rockwell International Acquires Autarky Auto Products of India
PR Newswire; 10/23/1996; 700+ words ; ...Corporation (NYSE: ROK) has acquired Autarky Auto Products of India, a major supplier...domestic automotive market in India. Autarky will become part of Rockwell Automotive...Rockwell's Automotive business because Autarky is the leading supplier of automotive...
THE BEAR'S LAIR: DOES AUTARKY WORK?
News Wire article from: United Press International; 7/23/2001; 700+ words ; ...07-23-2001 The Bear's Lair: Does autarky work? WASHINGTON, Jul 23, 2001 (United...conventional free trade economics wrong? Does autarky work? There are a number of examples...open up. Another example of successful autarky was the pre-1929 United States. Alexander...
Autarky rears its head.(Tidbits and Morsels: A column of musings on news that might otherwise go unnoticed.)
Newspaper article from: Iran Times International (Washington, DC); 5/8/2009; 354 words ; Autarky rears its head: Industries Minister Ali...revolution has long publicly believed in autarky or producing everything the country needs...Administrations only paid lip service to autarky, but the Ahmadi-nejad Administration...
From Autarky to joint ventures: toward the post communist opening of the Polish economy. (communist economic system)
Magazine article from: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business; 6/1/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...provided to show a gradual change of the system from communist autarky to open post-communist economy. The critical elements of...COMECON member countries and their clear tendencies toward autarky. Before the death of COMECON was declared in 1991, it had...
Bangladesh regains food autarky: Food Minister; Even can export rice, he says.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 8/30/2009; 700+ words ; ...Razzaque said Sunday. He came up with the declaration on food autarky after a meeting of the high-powered Food Planning and Monitoring...government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had also declared food autarky in the country and she won the Ceres Award of the UN Food and...
General Moeen urges farmers to increase farm output to help country attain food autarky.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 7/16/2008; 700+ words ; ...to boost their farm produce to help the country attain food autarky, as it is not possible to live on imports. "It's not possible...market by importing food-grains. So, we have to achieve food autarky by boosting agricultural production," he said during his...
Autarky.(Tidbits and Morsels: A column of musings on news that might otherwise go unnoticed.)
Newspaper article from: Iran Times International (Washington, DC); 8/7/2009; 317 words ; Autarky: Eager to demonstrate that it is self-sufficient in wheat, Iran has announced that it exported 1,867,000 tons of wheat in the first quarter of the current Persian year, the Fars news agency reported.
Autarky in wheat. (Pakistan)
Magazine article from: Economic Review; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...of wheat this year to meet the shortage. In retrospect, the production of wheat has risen but not fast enough to achieve autarky, let alone surplus for export or developing agro-industries like bread, biscuits, confectionery and corn flake. Pakistan...
Power autarky, THE INDEPENDENT
Newspaper article from: The Independent (Bangladesh); 4/25/2003; 511 words ; ...Barapukuria power plant which being developed by a Chinese company. Future As we praise the government's effort to reach autarky in energy, we earnestly hope that the power plant would be completed within the stipulated time without any unexpected disruption...