autarky

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economic independence as a national policy

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Finally, Peukert argued that it was the Great Depression and the turn to a nationalist policy of autarky within Germany at the same time that finished off the Weimar Republic, not the Treaty of Versailles. Source: Internet

Autarky is not necessarily an economic phenomenon; for example, a military autarky would be a state that could defend itself without help from another country, or could manufacture all of its weapons without any imports from the outside world. Source: Internet

Embargoes and tariffs imposed by the West forced the republic to "maintain the old autarky structures and begin new autarky projects of its own". Source: Internet

Other reforms adopted under the government's structural adjustment program include increasing exchange rate controls and increasing autarky and increasing restrictions on imports. Source: Internet

The Fianna Fáil's platform of economic autarky had appeal among the farmers, working-class people and the poor, whilst alienating more affluent classes. Source: Internet

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