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Re:Economics Nobel laureate Paul Romer is a Python programmi... by thousandautumns on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:08AM (#18175589)
Depends on the field. In the social sciences, Mathematica and Stata are probably the most widely used tools. Might be that way for economics too, but I'm not sure.
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Re:Economics Nobel laureate Paul Romer is a Python programmi... by emgee_1 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:31PM (#18178575)
I believe they prefer window like interfaces instead of scripting or programming your models. Stata used to be only command line driven and probably still has that functionality ( I used it in 1997-2007) ; then again as a mathematician I prefer R. Or any computer algebra system.
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