Stop Fighting Matplotlib for Economics Charts: econ-viz Is Your Friend

If you’ve ever tried to draw a simple microeconomics graph—say, an indifference curve tangent to a budget constraint—using raw Python or LaTeX, you know the struggle. You spend hours tweaking axis limits, hiding grids, calculating exact tangency points, and trying to align multiple subplots. I got tired of doing this manually for my teaching materials, so I built econ-viz. With our latest major update, it goes from being "a cool wrapper" to a "production-ready tool for economics lectures and papers." Here is how it solves the biggest headaches in drawing economics charts: Elegant Multi-Panel Layouts I’ve introduced a new Figure class that handles standard economic layouts out-of-the-box. Whether you need side-by-side, stacked, or 2x2 comparisons, you can generate them cleanly without fighting matplotlib.gridspec. The DemandDiagram Showing the derivation of the Marshallian demand curve requires stacking the utility space directly above the price-quantity space. econ-viz now perfectly al