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James Laxer

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 1579098

IMDb ID: nm1816031

Known for: Acting

Born: December 22, 1941

Died: February 23, 2018

Age: 76

Place of birth: Montreal, Québec, Canada

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1986 - 1987

Years active: 2

Wikidata: Q6137877

Also known as

Jim Laxer

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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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