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Yeah, and Economics Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent is a Julia programming convert (he even gave the JuliaCon 2016 keynote, video embedded below:)

EDIT to add: I should say that Thomas Sargent is one of the founders of QuantEcon (cited by OP), that's why I'm bringing this up here.

Another resource on Julia in Computational Economics:

(Cofounded by another Nobel laureate.)

> A fancy expression to say "using programming to solve economic models"

That fancy expression existed well before the birth of programming.