Editing Gary North (economist) (section)

== Early life and education ==
North was born in [[Los Angeles, California]], on February 11, 1942,<ref name="Roberts 2022"/><ref>{{cite web | last1=North | first1=Gary | date=January 2013 | title=An Economic Commentary on the Bible: Genesis to Revelation | website=garynorth.com | type=Web page | url=https://www.garynorth.com/public/department158.cfm | access-date=14 February 2022 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103032143/http://www.garynorth.com/public/department158.cfm | archive-date=January 3, 2013}}</ref> and grew up in [[Southern California]], the son of [[FBI]] special agent Samuel W. North Jr. and his wife Peggy.<ref>{{cite book | author=[[Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation]] | title=Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI | year=1996 | publisher=Turner Publishing Company | publication-place=Paducah, Kentucky | page=185 | isbn=978-1-56311-205-8 | oclc=37922781 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYY5In8w848C&pg=PA185}}</ref> North converted to [[Christianity]] in high school and, after attending a rally where [[Anti-Communism|anti-communist]] activist [[Fred Schwarz]] spoke, began frequenting conservative book-stores in the [[Los Angeles area]] during his college years.<ref name="all began">{{cite web | last=North | first=Gary | date=December 16, 2002 | title=It All Began With Fred Schwarz | url=http://archive.lewrockwell.com/north/north145.html | website=LewRockwell.com | access-date=May 3, 2011}}</ref> Between 1961 and 1963, while an undergraduate student at [[University of California, Riverside]], North became acquainted with the works of [[Wilhelm Röpke]], [[Rose Wilder Lane]], [[Cornelius Van Til]], [[Austrian School]] economists [[Eugen Böhm von Bawerk]], [[Ludwig von Mises]], [[Friedrich Hayek|F. A. Hayek]] and [[Murray Rothbard]], and also read the works of [[Calvinist]] philosopher [[R. J. Rushdoony|Rousas John Rushdoony]].<ref name="all began" /> Later he married Rushdoony's daughter,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-03-me-32672-story.html <!-- http://articles.latimes.com/2001/mar/03/local/me-32672 --> | title=The Rev. Rousas John Rushdoony; advocated rule by biblical law | first=Larry | last=Stammer | type=Obituary | work=The Los Angeles Times | date=March 3, 2001 | access-date=April 6, 2013 }}</ref> collaborated with him<ref>{{cite book | last1=Rushdoony | first1=Rousas John | title=The Institutes of Biblical Law: a Chalcedon Study | year=1978 | publisher=Presbyterian and Reformed | isbn=978-0-87552-410-8 | page=890 | first2=Gary | last2=North | oclc=768429065}}</ref> and eulogized Rushdoony in a blog post on LewRockwell.com.<ref>{{cite web | last=North | first=Gary | date=February 10, 2001 | title=R. J. Rushdoony, R.I.P. | url=https://archive.lewrockwell.com/north/north33.html | website=LewRockwell.com | access-date=May 3, 2011}}</ref>