Gary North — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1942–2022 · United States · Writer & theorist

Gary North

Free markets, Biblical order

Austrian economics, traditional faith.

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Governance−50
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The prolific paleolibertarian economist and writer who fused Austrian free-market economics with a deeply traditional religious worldview — liberty and decentralism grounded in inherited moral order.

social

Devout traditionalist rooting liberty in religious order.

economic

Hard-money, free-market Austrian economics.

governance

Radical decentralism and distrust of the central state.

Notable for
  • Prolific free-market author
  • Austrian economic education
  • Decentralist theory
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