Moshi Alam
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Moshi Alam
@moshialam.bsky.social
Labor Economist 📈📉| AP Clark University | PhD UW-Madison | he\him |
🕸️ moshialam.github.io
Often discussions get lost in comparing features of languages. Rather language choice should depend on what maximizes one’s efficiency and production of output. And that’s idiosyncratic.

Conditional on language, notebooks like Pluto, Jupyter, qmd, Rmd are excellent tools for teaching.
January 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The real cost is switching from tried-and-tested legacy code.

But there is large variation across sub-disciplines within economics---a lot of labor and macro folks use julia. In fact, julia.quantecon.org was started and still heavily maintained by macro folks.
Quantitative Economics with Julia
This website presents a set of lectures on quantitative economic modeling, designed and written by Jesse Perla, Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski. The language instruction is Julia.
julia.quantecon.org
January 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM