James Laxer

Acting•Born December 22, 1941•Died February 23, 2018 (age 76)•Montreal, Québec, Canada

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.