PROJECT: Book deployment — Sargent time-series & continuous-time, Stachurski econometrics & networks

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Background

Four books are queued for deployment, each ending with a listing on quantecon.org/books. Tom's request for his two books was #361 (closed; its checklist now lives in #363 and #364).

Book	Authors	Current state
Linear Time Series (Macroeconomic Theory, Ch. XI)	Thomas J. Sargent	Jupyter Book v1 site at thomassargent30.github.io/sargent-time-series
Preliminary Introduction to Continuous Time Stochastic Processes	Thomas J. Sargent	Jupyter Book v1 site at thomassargent30.github.io/sargent-continuous-time
A Primer in Econometric Theory (MIT Press, 2016)	John Stachurski	Homepage at johnstachurski.net/emet with sample PDFs; code in jstac/econometrics; LaTeX source held by the author
Economic Networks: Theory and Computation (Cambridge UP)	John Stachurski, Thomas J. Sargent	PDF + companion site at networks.quantecon.org; LaTeX source in private book-networks; already listed on the books page

Publishing model

• Conversion (LaTeX books): QuantEcon/claude-latex-to-myst — the Pandoc + post-processing pipeline that drove the book-dp1, book-dp2 and Deep Learning conversions. A new book is a config change (scripts/new-book.sh --source . --dest mystmd), and the post-processor already emits sphinx-proof directives, MyST cross-refs, figure directives and KaTeX-safe math.
• Hosting: books are self-hosted from the author's GitHub account, with quantecon.org/books linking out. A book can be hosted under QuantEcon if the author wishes.
• Publisher rights: the authors liaise with their publishers; not a QuantEcon task.
• Listing: _projects/*.md entries with type: book in QuantEcon/website, covers in assets/img/books/.

Work plan

Issue	Book	Work
#363	Sargent — Linear Time Series	List on books page; theorem/proof/exercise directives; more figures
#364	Sargent — Continuous Time Stochastic Processes	List on books page; theorem/proof/exercise directives; more figures
#365	Stachurski — A Primer in Econometric Theory	Place source; MyST-MD edition via claude-latex-to-myst; list on books page
#366	Stachurski & Sargent — Economic Networks	MyST-MD edition via claude-latex-to-myst; repoint books-page card

Sequencing

The four issues are independent. The Sargent listings can land immediately (covers are drafted and linked from #363 and #364). Economic Networks is the natural first conversion: source in hand and the same flat-chapter layout as book-dp2, so lessons carry to the Primer, which first needs its source placed in a repo.

What does not need to change

Existing companion sites and PDF workflows (networks.quantecon.org, dp.quantecon.org) stay as they are; MyST-MD editions are additive. The books-page layout already supports everything needed.

Sources

#361 · claude-latex-to-myst · QuantEcon/website _layouts/books.html, _projects/networks.md, _projects/dp-vol2.md · book-networks-public, book-networks (private), book-dp2 (reference conversion) · johnstachurski.net/emet, jstac/econometrics