Add setup.py so module can be installed. about hark HOT 8 CLOSED

This has been discussed and an early version was developed. I believe we decided to hold off on this for a while, but now I forget our reasoning. Leaving open for others to fill in details.

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I'm working on this in https://github.com/brainwane/HARK/tree/installability which I should have linked here much earlier - apologies! I should have it merged into master later today.

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We have some early developer releases available for pip install at http://pypi.org/project/econ-ark and conda install at https://anaconda.org/sumanah-changeset/econ-ark .

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Before merging the installability branch into master, can we fix the Models vs Demos issue?

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Thank you for that very good point, @mnwhite!

The Models versus Demos issue @mnwhite mentioned is: in the installability branch, we've changed the structure of the code, with several commits by @jasonaowen -- some of which he'd like to do over, reverting how he separated out Demos.

@compumetrika asked when we were planning on merging the installability branch back into master, and I originally suggested doing it this week. But @mnwhite makes a good point: it would be nice to have only one giant breaking change in master instead of two in a row. We do have some time pressure here, since we want to get this all merged and tested, and cut a new release, before Tuesday, 19 June (when Chris and Matt do their next public demo).

So here's how I propose to do this:

• Today, I'll make a separate pull request with other cleanup that's immediately applicable to the master branch.
• Tomorrow, I'll further prepare installability to make it more ready to merge into master.
• Next week, starting Monday, Jason will address the Models vs Demos issue on installability.
• After he's done that, ideally in the middle of next week, we make a pull request to merge installability into master, and get that reviewed and merged.

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(Non-code note: I'm back stateside. Chris is doing the Bank of England and Venice presentations solo!)

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This sounds really great. It's not your job to do it, but as a note for other team members (i.e. Nathan):

The next step after installability is merged in is to remove cstwMPC, cAndCwithStickyE, SolvingMicroDSOPs, and all of the Demos from HARK. When HARK is a package, those applications should not be installed. They will be provided separately on Econ-ARK as standalone archives and import the installed HARK.

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And because CDC keeps asking what we can call HARK 1.0: ^^^^ THAT! is HARK 1.0. A real package from which real research applications import their core functionality, extend it, and do their thing.

The time is near, get hyped!

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