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Alan Danks

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Alan Danks

Painted by Leo Bensemann, economist Alan Danks was a professor at the University of Canterbury. He published a pamphlet in the 1950s exposing the fallacies behind the Social Credit movement, and worked on the report of the 1972 Royal Commission on Social Security.

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University of Canterbury, Art Collection

Reference: UC/MBL/1985

by Leo Bensemann

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Gary Hawke, Economic thought – Post-war economics, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/22315/alan-danks (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gary Hawke, published 18 May 2010.