autonomy / autarky / autarchy
Self-rule, economic self-sufficiency, and absolute rule.
Autonomy is the right or power to govern oneself: campus autonomy, bodily autonomy. Autarky is economic self-sufficiency: a country that needs no imports. Autarchy is absolute rule by one person. Do not use autarky for political independence, or autonomy for a closed economy.
Examples
UseThe board left the lab its autonomy.
UseWartime planners wanted autarky.
AvoidWartime planners wanted autonomy in grain. (If they meant a closed food supply.)