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
The Stagnant Society. Harmondsworth 1961
External links Entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography