James Laxer
Birthday: 1941-12-22
Deathday: 2018-02-23
Place of birth: Montreal, Québec, Canada
Also known as: Jim Laxer
imdb_id: nm1816031
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.
