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James Laxer
Lived · 76
Born · Dec 22, 1941
From · Montreal, Québec, Canada
Films · 2
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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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