Laxer, Gordon

Gordon Laxer is a political economist in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He is the author of "Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada" (Oxford University Press, 1989) and co-editor (with Sandra Halperin) of "Global Civil Society and Its Limits" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Professor Laxer is the director and co-founder of Parkland Institute, a non-corporate, Alberta research network.