Gordon Laxer
Gordon Laxer is the Director of Parkland Institute, a progressive, non-corporate, Alberta research network that studies public policy alternatives. He has been a political economist in the Sociology Department at the University of Alberta since 1982. He is principal investigator for a five-year, $1.8 million research project, Neo-liberal Globalism and its Challengers: Reclaiming the Commons in the Semi-Periphery: Canada, Mexico, Australia and Norway, principally funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He is the author of a forthcoming book, Freezing in the Dark: Oil Independence for Canada.
Appearing at these conference event(s):
- Feb. 13, 2010 - Budgeting for an Alberta We Want
- Nov. 20, 2010 - Big Brother Still?
Parkland Conferences participated in:
Parkland/AFL Conference 2010More info:
