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This research examines two modes of assessment of environmental health risks and the transformation of these risks into public health issues while relying on the specific case of well‐water toxicity and mega dose of electromagnetic radiation found in one prosperous town in the center of Israel – Ramat ha‐Sharon. Based on official and scientific documentation and interviews conducted at three time periods with randomly selected town residents from contaminated neighborhoods (N = 169), this study shows the discrepancy between the ‘objective’ experts’ standards for assessing environmental health risks and the public’s subjective perception and evaluation of the impact of these risks on their health and well‐being. Even though, by experts’ standards, the well‐water toxicity remained constant over the three interview sessions, Ramat ha‐Sharon town residents’ subjective levels of concern and perception of risk fluctuated as a function of news media and municipality announcements and residents’ perceived ability to minimize the risk. This study also shows the complex and multidisciplinary nature of environmental health risk assessments and the need to relocate them into the broader socioeconomic and political context in which they are embedded.     

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The Routledge Companion to Accounting History. Editors: John Richard Edwards and Stephen P. Walker. Routledge, Taylor &; Francis Group, London and New York. 2008. xvii and 619 pp. ISBN 9780415410946. £125.     

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Phelim Boyle and Feidh Lim Boyle, Derivatives: The Tools that Changed Finance     

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Book reviewed in this article: J. B. Ryan, C. T. Heazlewood, B. H. Andrew and M. A. Perkinson, New Zealand Company Financial Reporting: 1982 J. Wong and M. E. Bradbury, Supplement to New Zealand Company Financial Reporting: 1982 A. D. Barton, “Objectives and Basic Concepts of Accounting”, Accounting Theory Monograph No. 2 Robert S. Kaplan, Advanced Management Accounting R. C. Clift, (ed.), Accounting: Communication and Control J. G. Louderback and M. L. Hirsch, Cost Accounting: Accumulation Analysis and Use R. Baxt, H. A. J. Ford, G.J. Samuels, C. M. Maxwell, An Introduction to the Securities Industry Codes Bell, Philip W., CVA, CCA and CoCoA: How Fundamental are the Differences? Philip A. Phin, Accounting for Real Estate Development Michael Scorgie and Anne Magnus, BASIC for Accountants - with an introduction to the use of computers in business H. Russell Fogler and Sundaram Ganapathy, Financial Econometrics for Researchers in Finance and Accounting Colin Tapper, Computer Law Michael J. Pratt, Auditing L. K. Scott (ed.), The Australian Credit Management Manual P. J. Hutchinson (ed.), Financing Small Enterprise Development     

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1. Introductory. In the empirical study of demand behaviour, as in other investigations into economic factors and their interrelations, the main statistical tool has been the mean square (m. sq. ¹ Following H. Cramér 1, we adopt this abbreviation for the classical least squares regression method. ) method of regression. ² For a survey, see the standard treatise of H. Schultz 1. It is equally well known, however, that this method has met much criticism. No doubt there are still many questions to discuss in this field.     

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Book review in this article: C D Harbury and D M W N Hitchens, Inheritance and Wealth Inequality in Britain, (George Allen and Unwin.)