James Laxer

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Gender Male

Birthday 1941-12-22

Deathday 2018-02-23 (76 years old)

Place of Birth Montreal, Québec, Canada

James Laxer

Biography

James Robert Laxer, also known as Jim Laxer, was a Canadian political economist, historian, public intellectual, and political activist who served as a professor at York University. Best known as co-founder of the Waffle, on whose behalf he ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party in 1971, he was the author of more than two dozen books, mostly on Canadian political economy and history.

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