Most finance textbooks suggest that companies evaluate investment projects using discount rates that reflect both the debt capacity and the unique risks of the project. In practice, however, companies often use their company-wide WACC to evaluate such investments because of the difficulty of...

P<sc>ritchard</sc> B., A<sc>rgent</sc> N., B<sc>aum</sc> S., B<sc>ourke</sc> L., M<sc>artin</sc> J., M<sc>c</sc>M<sc>anus</sc> P., S<sc>orensen</sc> A. and W<sc>almsley</sc> J. Local -- if possible: how the spatial networking of economic relations amongst farm enterprises aids small town survival in rural Australia, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Over recent decades, the tendency in...

Since 1980, a project on integrated pest management in rice has been operating in seven countries of the South/South East ASian Region through the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Austral1a has been an instigator and act1 va finanOial '\nd technical supporter of the project. An important part...

There is a fair amount of interest in the use of Galois or Concept Lattices in the social sciences as a way of representing complex data structures; it does not seem to be widely appreciated that these structures are homologous to those arising from a discrete noncompensatory multidimensional...