Gord Laxer

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Gordon Laxer is the director of Parkland Institute, a non-corporate, Alberta research network which studies public policy alternatives. He has been a political economist in the Sociology Department at the University of Alberta since 1982. Laxer wrote Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada, which received the 1992 John Porter Award. Laxer was first chair of the “Waffle” in Toronto and of the Council of Canadians in Edmonton. He is principal investigator of a five-year, $1.8-million research project on Neo-liberal Globalism and Its Challengers. Sustainability in the Semi-periphery, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.


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