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+title: "Lecture updates — July 26 – August 2, 2026"
+author: QuantEcon
+excerpt: "Updates to the QuantEcon lectures."
+tag: [lectures]
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+- 📚 **[Quantitative Economics with Python](https://python.quantecon.org/)** — Added missing `pip install` cells for `quantecon` and `jax` dependencies across lectures to ensure reproducible execution environments.
+  - [Add pip install cells for quantecon and jax in lectures that were missing them](https://github.com/QuantEcon/lecture-python.myst/pull/1006)