About QuantEcon

Our mission

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.

History & grants

Milestones and the funding that has supported our work.

2015 QuantEcon founded

Co-founded by Thomas J. Sargent (Nobel Laureate, NYU) and John Stachurski (ANU).

2014–2020 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Multi-year support for the lecture series and the open-science infrastructure behind it.

2020 Executable Books Project

A founding partner in the Executable Books Project, which released Jupyter Book and the MyST ecosystem.

Now Chow Institute, Xiamen University

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.

Get involved

Contribute to our lectures, code libraries, and infrastructure projects.

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Contact

contact@quantecon.org

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