Melanie Powell

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Melanie Powell is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Derby. Her research interests include areas of risk behaviour in health and finance and her publications include Economics (10th edition co-authored with M. Parkin and K. Matthews, Pearson Education, 2017). For Politeia she co-authored Paying for Elderly Social Care: What Principles? What Aims? (2020) and Banking on Recovery: Towards an accountable, stable financial sector (2016).

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‘Paying for Elderly Social Care: What Principles? What Aims?’

By Melanie Powell
July 11, 2020

We Need Closer Alignment of Medical Social Care with Local Health in Streamlined Body, says former health minister, Not Monolithic NHS - Social Care Integration. Experts set out...

Economy - Recent Publications

‘Banking on Recovery: Towards an Accountable, Stable Financial Sector’, by Lord McFall, S. Kamall, G. Lyons, R. Roberts, F. Capie, G. Wood, K. Matthews, D. B. Smith, M. Powell, E. Michaels and S. Lawlor

By Melanie Powell
April 2, 2016

The financial crisis of 2007/8 and its causes still loom large in the debate about Britain’s economy and its recovery. While politicians and economists agree on some...

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