Repeating a Historical Experience of Autarky?

Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux

“As the US government’s enervation and economically illiterate interventionism fuel trade wars and dreams of autarky, it is worth looking at the long historical experience of economic isolation that started under the late Chinese emperors at the time of our High and Late Middle Ages. Three books help us understand the world in that regard.” (03/04/25)

https://www.econlib.org/repeating-a-historical-experience-of-autarky/