Python Programming for Economics and Finance

This website presents a set of lectures on Python programming for economics and finance, designed and written by Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski. This is the first text in the series, which focuses on programming in Python.

For an overview of the series, see this page

Introduction to Python

• 1. About Python
• 2. Getting Started
• 3. An Introductory Example
• 4. Functions
• 5. Python Essentials
• 6. OOP I: Objects and Names
• 7. OOP II: Building Classes

The Scientific Libraries

• 8. Python for Scientific Computing
• 9. NumPy
• 10. Matplotlib
• 11. SciPy
• 12. Pandas

High Performance Computing

• 13. Numba
• 14. Parallelization
• 15. JAX

Advanced Python Programming

• 16. Writing Good Code
• 17. More Language Features
• 18. Debugging and Handling Errors

Other

• 19. Troubleshooting
• 20. Execution Statistics