Varoufakis speaking at Sydney University

Yanis Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece, blessed University of Sydney with his presence today talking about the Eurozone and economic crisis, a talk hosted by the Political Economy department within the university.

Charmingly, with lots of metaphors and comical stories from his hectic 7 months in the spotlight of the Eurozone debt crisis, Varoufakis delivered a talk to a very leftie audience. Surprisingly, most of the audience consisted not of university students from the political economy department eager to overthrow the neoliberal agenda, but random elderly and Green party sympathisers. I thought leftie students were in on this revolution?

The Opportunity Cost of Life

Monday last week marked four months of my wonderful Australian adventure. About a third of my time here is behind me and I truthfully have barely even noticed. Time has passed so quickly it’s frightening – but the scariest part is looking back to what I have done. Not that much it turns out.

The Economics of Hunger Games

It's Hunger Games time! November has been the highlight of the year for us Hunger Games fans - now for the last time. Straight after my exam thursday, I went to my friend's place and we had an incredibly nice marathon of the first three movies (complete with chocolate, biscuits, cake and take-away thai food!), after which we rushed to the cinema to see the last movie. And it was good - as good as a cinema portrayal of splendid novels you can imagine. Yes, I love the story, but I'm Team Gale so I'm obviously less-than-thrilled about how Collins make Katniss like/love Peeta throughout the story. 

Should I do a PhD?

If you find a thousand words of student rants beneath you, here’s for all you TL;DR-lovers out there: PhDs are difficult, competitive and expensive, but I’m convinced that is the life I want; if so, should I go for History which is less valuable but more competitive, or Econ, which is way more technical (difficult?) but has higher and wider value?

Here we go. The question posed is a simple yet complicated one and is one that has been floating around the back of my head for a few months; Should I get a PhD?

Lew Rockwell is Wrong

TL;DR: ‘Open Border’ Libertarianism > ‘Forced Immigration’ Libertarianism and I show why Lew Rockwell’s arguments yesterday (and Hoppe's before that) are inadequate.

Now I’m going to do what most bloggers would advise against; move away from the core topic of your blog (Econ, Student Life), and be overtly political. Risks heard: this is too important.

The otherwise brilliant Lew Rockwell published this article on immigration yesterday (from a Mises Circle speech last weekend) in light of the terrorist attacks around the world and the renewed discussion about migration and Islam that naturally came with it.

Thoughts on Balance

I think a lot about balance these days. On many levels: privately, academically and socially. Maybe all this yoga has gotten to me, and the constant emphasis on focus, balance and connect with your inner self.

Embracing Your Enemies

It’s no secret that I take a very Austrian approach to the study of Economics. I fell in love with the thinking of the school about two and a half years ago, and I have kept learning since. Last April I thoroughly researched the calculation debate while everyone else enjoyed their Easter breaks, and produced an almost-dissertation sized article for AEME (Austrian Economics Meeting in Europe) soon to be published by the Austrian Economics Centre in their Student Book Project. I had one glorious visit to the Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, for Mises Summer University 2014; and I'm hoping to get the privilege to once again learn at the foremost scholarly adventure in our tradition in 2016.

Exam Days

This post was republished at Sydney Uni blogs.

Having two exams 18hs apart is hardly optimal. As every Uni student knows, the best exam schedule is about 5-6 days between your exams. That allows you to cool do for the rest of your day, get back into balance, and still have a reasonable amount of time to revise everything for the next exam, watch lecture recordings, and read up on texts you missed or topics you still don’t grasp very well.

Before my macro exam on Tuesday I had the same feelings of...

I hate Macro... but I love Macro?

I hate macro!

A reasonable conclusion one day before an exam, I guess, regardless of discipline. I'm so sick of Swan-Solow growth theory, Accelerator theories of Investment or Phillips Curves based on phantoms of natural rate of unemployment. But the other day I took an hours break from that - to argue over the alleged Swedish Housing Bubble with someone over at Acting-Man.com (an otherwise quite nice blog, but this time they really messed up). Which is pretty much macro. Clearly, I also love macro. And deep down, it's fascinating and I want to learn about it. How can the macro out there not be the macro in here?

A Restart In Every Sense But One

Welcome to Life of an Econ Student!

This is an old blog of mine I have finally taken the effort to re-structure, re-organise and fill with new content. All the old texts are still available via Archive (though admittedly, they're mostly in Swedish)

#LifeOfAnEconStudent is a hashtag I've been using on instagram for ages, but nobody ever cared much for it, so I'm now considering it my own.

Me and Blogging go way back and our relationship has very much been on and off. Best of lovers to worst of enemies and back, all with different themes and different inputs, from minimalist-environmentalist-living to collection of articles, to random thoughts and...