Reorganize table of contents

[jstac]

Restructures the TOC so that prerequisites come before use and sections are thematically coherent. No lecture content changes except one title fix.

New structure

1. Introduction: about
2. Economic Data: long_run_growth, business_cycle, inflation_history, inequality
3. Probability and Distributions: prob_dist, observed_distributions, fitting_distributions, bivariate_dist, lln_clt, heavy_tails
4. Estimation: simple_linear_regression, mle, bayes_intro
5. Foundations: intro_supply_demand, linear_equations, geom_series
6. Linear Dynamics: Finite Horizons: pv, equalizing_difference, cons_smooth, tax_smooth
7. Linear Dynamics: Infinite Horizons: complex_and_trig, eigen_I, greek_square
8. Nonlinear Dynamics: scalar_dynam, solow, cobweb, olg, msy_fishery, schelling
9. Money, Inflation and Fiscal Policy: cagan_ree, cagan_adaptive, money_inflation, unpleasant, money_inflation_nonlinear, laffer_adaptive, french_rev
10. Stochastic Dynamics: ar1_processes, markov_chains_I, markov_chains_II, time_series_with_matrices, monte_carlo, commod_price
11. Optimization: lp_intro, short_path
12. Modeling in Higher Dimensions: eigen_II, input_output, lake_model, networks, mobility
13. Markets and Competitive Equilibrium: supply_demand_multiple_goods, supply_demand_heterogeneity

Main moves

• French Revolution: moved from Economic Data to the end of the monetary section. It relies on cagan_ree, money_inflation and unpleasant.
• Money, Inflation and Fiscal Policy: now includes the two Cagan lectures, so the monetary thread is in one place.
• Estimation: moved to follow Probability and Distributions.
• Monte Carlo and Option Pricing: moved to Stochastic Dynamics, since option pricing simulates a dynamic price model.
• Commodity Prices: moved to Stochastic Dynamics, since it's a storage model with random harvests.
• Schelling: moved to Nonlinear Dynamics.
• Complex Numbers and Trigonometry: moved to Infinite Horizons, ahead of eigenvalues.
• Title fix: "Inflation During the French Revolution".

The existing "previous lecture" and "next lecture" phrases all still hold. Lecture numbering changes throughout, so translation TOCs will need re-syncing.

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[jstac]

Hi @thomassargent30 @mmcky , this PR is a small reorganization of the table of contents for the intro lecture series.

I've grouped lectures into topics in a way that seems natural.

The only controversial part: I've put the material on probability distributions and elementary estimation methods closer to the top because they are easy. The disadvantage is that students have to wait longer to get to the economics.

I'm going to merge this PR, so I can keep moving forward on other tasks, but please feel free to push back -- we can revisit all of this and reorganize again.

[mmcky]

✅ Translation sync completed (zh-cn)

Target repo: QuantEcon/lecture-intro.zh-cn
Translation PR: QuantEcon/lecture-intro.zh-cn#307
Files synced (2):

• lectures/french_rev.md
• lectures/_toc.yml