update to standard readme

Author: mmcky

README.md

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-# lecture-python-intro
+# A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python
 
-An undergraduate lecture series for the foundations of computational economics
+An Undergraduate Lecture Series for the Foundations of Computational Economics
 
-## Content ideas 
+## Jupyter notebooks
 
-Content ideas in no particular order.
+Jupyter notebook versions of each lecture are available for download
+via the website.
 
-Open individual issues and PRs for the ones we decide to add.
+## Contributions
 
-  1. Geometric Series (existing lecture)
-  2. Leontief Systems (from Networks Book)
-  3. Luenberger
-  4. IO Visualizations (from Networks Book)
-  5. PyPGM (Eileen Nielson ... Youtube Star)
-  6. Baby Version of https://python.quantecon.org/re_with_feedback.html (Cagan Model)
-  7. Baby Version of "unpleasant arithmetic and Friedmans optimal quantity of money"
-  8. Schelling Segregation Model
-  9. Solow Model
-  10. Simulations of Wealth Distribution
-  11. Baby model of Lake Model (Eigenvalue Extension)
-  12. Diamond Dybvig Model
-  13. Moral Harzard - Wallace
-  14. Philips Curve and Nairu
-  15. Baby version of the Markov Chain Lecture
-  16. Baby linear programming lecture
-  17. Basic Nonlinear Demand and Supply (non-linear solver) OOP lecture
-  18. Asset Pricing (Harrison/Kreps Model)
-  19. Two Models of Asset Bubbles
-  20. cobweb model -- start people thinking about expectations
-  21. social mobility lecture
-  22. Baby version of cattle cycles model
-  23. Bi-matrix games.
-  24. Shortest path lecture (existing)
-  25. Pricing an American option 
-  26. Baby version of LLN / CLT lecture --- less maths, more simulation, all in one dimension
-  27. Baby version of heavy tails lecture
-  30. Lecture on solving linear equations and matrix algebra
-  31. Lecture on eigenvalues, Perron-Frobenius and the Neumann series lemma
-  32. Overlapping generations
+To comment on the lectures please add to or open an issue in the issue tracker (see above).
 
-Get Tom's network intermediary paper.
+We welcome pull requests!  
+
+Please read the [QuantEcon style guide](https://manual.quantecon.org/intro.html) first, so that you can match our style.