About QuantEcon
QuantEcon advances open-source software and open science in economics — freely available, high-quality computational tools and educational resources as a public good for the global economics community.
Noncommercial, independent of any single institution, and committed to permanent open licensing. QuantEcon keeps its own name, governance, and editorial control.
What we do
High-quality series on economics, finance, econometrics, and data science.
BooksOpen-access textbooks on quantitative economics and finance.
Code librariesHigh-performance libraries in Python and Julia for economic modeling.
WorkshopsRemote and in-person at universities, central banks, and international organizations.
InfrastructureOpen-source tooling for computational education, including Jupyter Book and the Executable Books Project.
History & grants
Milestones and the funding that has supported our work.
Co-founded by Thomas J. Sargent (Nobel Laureate, NYU) and John Stachurski (ANU).
Sustained, multi-year support for QuantEcon's open lectures, code libraries, and the open-science infrastructure behind them — across two grants:
- Improving teaching and research in quantitative economics — the QuantEcon lecture series.
- The Executable Books Project, which released Jupyter Book and the MyST ecosystem.
A gift supporting the development of new lecture material to help establish QuantEcon as a mainstream graduate teaching resource.
Our current sponsor, supporting QuantEcon's ongoing lectures, books, and code libraries.
Fiscal sponsorship
A fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS and PSL Foundation. Donations are tax-deductible; NumFOCUS holds and protects the QuantEcon trademark while QuantEcon keeps its own governance and editorial control.
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Contribute to our lectures, code libraries, and infrastructure projects.
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