Do They Know It’s Christmas Royalties?
We are currently finding ourselves in the most wonderful time of the year: Christmas! Can you really believe it? Santa Claus is coming to town! One thing a stereotypical economist likes more than Christmas however; money. Money, money, money. But for some people, those topics go hand in hand. Christmas is the time of year where…
The Brains Last Stand
In 1950 a famous engineer, Claude Shannon, wrote a paper called “How to Programme a Computer to Play Chess”. This paper contained what is nowadays referred to as Shannon’s number, and came up with the estimate that a normal game of chess can have 10120 different outcomes. From these conditions, it is quite remarkable how…
Teacher of the Year 2020: Igor Martins
In 2016 I was entrusted with the noble task of teaching a small group of bachelor students. It was a single lecture on the contemporary economic history of Latin America. Before that, I have never entered a classroom as a teacher. After the lecture, I was hooked. I loved the experience! I started to use…
Friday evening as a LundaEkonom (A Lund special)
*In a time before local restrictions 15.00 Grand Hotel (Bantorget 1) The afternoon begins at 15.00 at Grand Hotel with an aperitif and some light snack, as the LundaEkonom just finished half through her semester. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere right? 17.00 at Malmstens Fisk & Kök (Mårtenstorget 1, Lund) The evening continues towards Saluhallen, more…
Not another C*****virus article?!
“Oh no, not another Corona based article” you might think, but worry not! This is just a reflection about what I, and probably many others, have learnt during these times of social distancing. 1. I love to bake, but I’m honestly not very good at it. Endless sourdough attempts, a kitchen covered in flour and…
A Quarantine Daydream about Studio 54
We all remember and long for the days of pre-social distancing due to covid-19. The days where we could go to an actual class instead of zoom, stand carefree with our friends in a packed queue outside of Grönt o’ Gott and lastly, attend our favourite nation in the evening in trust that we would…
Yes Ve-gan?
I happen to be one of those people who suffers from extreme eco-anxiety. I don’t know if it’s the consequence of all the David Attenborough documentaries I watched as a kid or what my issue is but, recently I’ve had to find some coping mechanisms to combat my klimatångest. Therefore, over the past years I’ve…
All the single ladies: Put your hands up!
We are currently moving into the time of year where our email has begun to fill up with cheesy advertisement of gifts for him or her, simultaneously as all shops are filled with heart formed chocolate, roses and fluffy teddy bears. As this was not enough, articles with the headline of “The perfect Valentine’s gift…
Hold That Thought!
– What a wonderful world “The atoms like each other to different degrees” he’d open with. There’s beauty in simplicity. A writer does not necessarily express her brilliance by how many complicated words she can put into her work, but rather, how much she can say in as few words as possible. Beauty lies in the obvious, beauty lies…
