Verena Gradinger
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Verena Gradinger
@averenasour.bsky.social
🌚 26. She/her.
📌 Somewhere between Vienna and London.
📔 Political Economist in the making @SOAS University of London
Critical Macrofinance by day. Ecological Marxism by night.
January 19, 2026 at 11:07 AM
POV: the deadline for the PhD proposal is in 52 hours and you are starting to question all your life decisions
October 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Most unhinged behaviour
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Openly admitting you can now just buy your way out of court cases
October 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I mean....
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Crypto is not a Ponzi scheme"
Meanwhile crypto in the UK:
August 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Them: so what exactly are you studying?
Me:
July 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Making it to the 9 am session after yesterday's conference dinner and the drinks and discussions that followed was hard, but so worth it @hetecon.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Meanwhile Financial Times literally so
June 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I am deeply disturbed by the fact that the Bank of England uses EXCEL GRAPHS in official policy papers...
May 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
still need to recover from how hard the part on money slaps, but I promise I will eventually get to it 😂
May 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
What this looks like in my head:
May 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I am afraid I can not keep this a secret from you. You should be aware that this what SOAS student group chats during exam season look like.
@anninak.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @bbonizzi.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I have my first exam at @soasuni.bsky.social tomorrow and every single reading is a banger. I have never been this excited to be an economist.
I am so incredibly grateful for being able to study at a department where almost all of my idols were shaped and continue to shape students like me.
May 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
April 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
AI just casually telling economists their models make no sense is the plot twist I am here for
February 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
😭😭😭
February 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Me in micro:
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM