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

. His Penguin Special book The Stagnant Society (1961) sold 60,000 copies.

Books

• The Stagnant Society. Harmondsworth 1961

External links

• Entry in
  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Party political offices
Preceded by Jack Diamond	Treasurer of the Fabian Society 1964–1965	Succeeded by Brian Abel-Smith