Greenland is at the center of a new strategic realignment, raising the question of what the US "demand" really means and what are the implications for Europe, NATO and the Greenlanders themselves? The recent episode is part of a...
George Atsalakis
Venezuela: The oil "curse"
Before the end of the decade in the 1980s, Venezuela was a miracle. It had a stable democracy where power changed peacefully every five years. It had a growing middle class that owned cars and houses. And above all, it had oceans of oil. The...
In Venezuela, the world is changing forever.
In its modern version, the Monroe Doctrine, originally formulated in 1823, corresponds to a continuing effort by the United States to secure its economic infrastructure, energy flows, and sea lanes, and will not hesitate to take action in the other countries of the American...
Artificial Intelligence and Management Accounting
Introduction The explosive growth of data is reshaping management accounting, shifting it from traditional sources of information to a more analytical approach. The use of both structured and unstructured data enhances decision-making and...
China's ambition for a new world system and the contradictions
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit was the platform from which Xi Jinping presented the idea of a new global security and economic system. This initiative is not just a diplomatic move, but an attempt by China to...
The Trade War That Became an Alliance: How US-EU Tariffs Are Reshaping Global Trade
The idea that free trade is always and everywhere beneficial is a theoretical construct with no practical application in the global realities of the 21st century. The US, the guardian of free trade, had imports in 2024 of $4,11 trillion and exports of $3,19 trillion...
The Zangezur Trade Corridor
The so-called "Zangezur Corridor" has emerged as one of the most critical geostrategic hubs in the South Caucasus region. Although it is officially presented as an infrastructure project aimed at facilitating transit trade between Azerbaijan and...
The importance of a war that decides the future of the Middle East
Strategically, we see the narrative that democracies are doomed to react and pick up the pieces, while authoritarian regimes pull the strings from a position of strength, being overturned. Israel showed preemptive boldness and used air power,...
The Indian "Silk Road" IMEC in the new US world order
Countries with imperial pasts and authoritarian regimes, such as Russia, Iran, China and Turkey, have been disrupting global peace since the beginning of this century. If analyzed in terms of their imperial aspirations, it becomes clear how these new powers...
What's behind the US policy of "Drill, Baby, Drill"?
The continuation of the article Despite high interest rates and pressures, Russia maintains a low budget deficit (below 3%). The reason is that, on the one hand, energy exports —mainly oil— continue to generate sufficient revenue for the government, on the other hand, the...
George S. Atsalakis is an Associate Professor at the School of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete. He is an Economist graduate of the Athens University of Economics and Business (formerly A.S.O.E.E.). He holds a Master's Degree in Organization and Management from the Technical University of Crete. He also holds a PhD from the Technical University of Crete in Stock Market Forecasting and is a member of the Data Analysis and Forecasting laboratory.
He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers that have been published in prestigious international scientific journals, in international conferences, etc. and more than 400 newspaper & magazine articles.
He has written many hundreds of articles on New technologies, Inflation, energy crisis, food crisis, money markets, stagflation, pandemic, cryptocurrencies, Silk Road, public debt, 4th industrial/technological revolution, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence algorithms, economic megacycles, innovative societies and economies, public financial financial analyses, economic importance of the country's energy reserves, public expenditures, state budget, global debt, cost of living, economic development which have been published in pan-Hellenic newspapers such as Kathimerini, To Vima, Ta Nea, the Shipping, in magazines such as In-On, Cretan Business, Geopolitics, Epikaira, GR DIPLOMATIC REVIEW, Insurance Marketing, Business Administration Bulletin and on various information websites, i-efimerida, liberal.gr, Huffingtonpost.gr, etc.
He has participated in over 400 television and radio interviews and discussions on the topics related to the economic crisis and economic development, tourism, new technologies, covid-19 forecasts, the Silk Road, etc. He is the author of the books: a) Stock Market Forecasting Techniques, Keydarithm, Athens, 2008, b) Simple Logics of Restructuring the Economy and Businesses, Keydarithm, Athens, 2013. Also, together with 12 other professors, he is co-author of the book on Public Debt " Greek Debt the Perpetuation of the Problem"
He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers that have been published in prestigious international scientific journals, in international conferences, etc. and more than 400 newspaper & magazine articles.
He has written many hundreds of articles on New technologies, Inflation, energy crisis, food crisis, money markets, stagflation, pandemic, cryptocurrencies, Silk Road, public debt, 4th industrial/technological revolution, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence algorithms, economic megacycles, innovative societies and economies, public financial financial analyses, economic importance of the country's energy reserves, public expenditures, state budget, global debt, cost of living, economic development which have been published in pan-Hellenic newspapers such as Kathimerini, To Vima, Ta Nea, the Shipping, in magazines such as In-On, Cretan Business, Geopolitics, Epikaira, GR DIPLOMATIC REVIEW, Insurance Marketing, Business Administration Bulletin and on various information websites, i-efimerida, liberal.gr, Huffingtonpost.gr, etc.
He has participated in over 400 television and radio interviews and discussions on the topics related to the economic crisis and economic development, tourism, new technologies, covid-19 forecasts, the Silk Road, etc. He is the author of the books: a) Stock Market Forecasting Techniques, Keydarithm, Athens, 2008, b) Simple Logics of Restructuring the Economy and Businesses, Keydarithm, Athens, 2013. Also, together with 12 other professors, he is co-author of the book on Public Debt " Greek Debt the Perpetuation of the Problem"
George Atsalakis
What's really happening in Greenland?
Greenland is at the center of a new strategic realignment, raising the question of what the US "demand" really means and what are the implications for Europe, NATO and the Greenlanders themselves? The recent episode is part of a...
Venezuela: The oil "curse"
Before the end of the decade in the 1980s, Venezuela was a miracle. It had a stable democracy where power changed peacefully every five years. It had a growing middle class that owned cars and houses. And above all, it had oceans of oil. The...
In Venezuela, the world is changing forever.
In its modern version, the Monroe Doctrine, originally formulated in 1823, corresponds to a continuing effort by the United States to secure its economic infrastructure, energy flows, and sea lanes, and will not hesitate to take action in the other countries of the American...
Artificial Intelligence and Management Accounting
Introduction The explosive growth of data is reshaping management accounting, shifting it from traditional sources of information to a more analytical approach. The use of both structured and unstructured data enhances decision-making and...
China's ambition for a new world system and the contradictions
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit was the platform from which Xi Jinping presented the idea of a new global security and economic system. This initiative is not just a diplomatic move, but an attempt by China to...
The Trade War That Became an Alliance: How US-EU Tariffs Are Reshaping Global Trade
The idea that free trade is always and everywhere beneficial is a theoretical construct with no practical application in the global realities of the 21st century. The US, the guardian of free trade, had imports in 2024 of $4,11 trillion and exports of $3,19 trillion...
The Zangezur Trade Corridor
The so-called "Zangezur Corridor" has emerged as one of the most critical geostrategic hubs in the South Caucasus region. Although it is officially presented as an infrastructure project aimed at facilitating transit trade between Azerbaijan and...
The importance of a war that decides the future of the Middle East
Strategically, we see the narrative that democracies are doomed to react and pick up the pieces, while authoritarian regimes pull the strings from a position of strength, being overturned. Israel showed preemptive boldness and used air power,...
The Indian "Silk Road" IMEC in the new US world order
Countries with imperial pasts and authoritarian regimes, such as Russia, Iran, China and Turkey, have been disrupting global peace since the beginning of this century. If analyzed in terms of their imperial aspirations, it becomes clear how these new powers...
What's behind the US policy of "Drill, Baby, Drill"?
The continuation of the article Despite high interest rates and pressures, Russia maintains a low budget deficit (below 3%). The reason is that, on the one hand, energy exports —mainly oil— continue to generate sufficient revenue for the government, on the other hand, the...