Knowing when knowledge performs its power in ecological economics

Behavior: Knowing When to Walk Away, Knowing When to Run

A new model has been proposed indicating that humans and other animals weigh the metabolic cost of pursuit in deciding how fast to move toward a given reward, providing a powerful framework for understanding behavior.

Lococode Performs Nonlinear Ica without Knowing the Number of Sources

Low-complexity coding and decoding (Lococode), a novel approach to sensory coding, trains autoassocia-tors (AAs) by Flat Minimum Search (FMS), a recent general method for nding low-complexity networks with high generalization capability. FMS works by minimizing both training error and required weight precision. We nd that as a by-product Lococode separates nonlinear superpositions of sources wi...

Knowing When to Stop

Ecological economics.

This course introduces students to the field of ecological economics and explores how the field's simple premise — to recognize the fundamental dependence of the economic system on the environment — complicates matters for conventional economic theory and practice. While focusing on ecological economics, the intent is to expose students to a variety of thought on the theoretical relationship be...

Ecological Economics

Ecological economics arose in the final decades of the 20th century out of concerns for environmental protection and economic sustainability. It was largely a response to a real or perceived lack of physical and biological underpinnings in neoclassical economics. It was also intended to infuse economics with a moral philosophy, in contrast with the amoral implications of neoclassical models por...