Name: James Laxer
Birthday: 22 December 1941
Deathday: 23 February 2018
Place of Birth: Montreal, Québec, Canada
Known For: Acting
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.
