Michael Shanks (journalist)

Michael James Shanks (12 April 1927, London – 13 January 1984, London) was a British economic journalist.

Throughout the 1950s, Shanks was a writer and editor at the Financial Times, and in 1964/5 he became the economic correspondent with the Sunday Times. His Penguin Special book The Stagnant Society (1961) sold 60,000 copies.

Books

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  • The Stagnant Society. Harmondsworth 1961
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Party political offices
Preceded by Treasurer of the Fabian Society
1964–1965
Succeeded by