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Paris Tsakalidis

A Grande École HEC Paris and Kellogg MBA graduate with a strategy consulting background. I founded EconScope to share overlooked narratives, pursuing intellectual curiosity through deep dives into the questions that linger, using AI-assisted research

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Who Gets Paid When Insurance Gets Smarter?

As AI makes insurance cheaper to arrange and operate, value can move across the chain - toward customers, platforms, specialists, carriers or new intermediaries. Who gets paid depends on competition, bargaining power and the commitments each participant can still defend.

Europe’s Far Right: Testing the Demographic Argument

Economic pressures, religious identity and historical memory shape Europe’s far-right politics. A UK case study examines what demographic and electoral evidence establishes about population change and future political power.

Greece, Turkey and the New Eastern Mediterranean Game

Greece–Turkey tensions are part of a wider Eastern Mediterranean game. This article examines how NATO, the US, France, Israel, Cyprus, energy infrastructure and grey-zone competition are reshaping deterrence, alliance incentives, escalation risk and the costs of open conflict.

Blame Game

A missed dinner becomes a test of hidden premises, Bayesian updating, blame and the strategic cost of admitting you’re wrong. Blame Game follows one ordinary argument to ask what better a better way to disagree would require.

Western Prosperity, Reconsidered

Western economies are extraordinarily wealthy, yet access to housing, ownership and security has narrowed for many. This special publication follows where wealth goes, how prosperity was built, and what policy can do to keep opportunity open.

You Already Spent the Happiness

The economics of “then I’ll be happy” The offer letter arrives while the kitchen sink is full. For a few hours, the future feels as if it has apologized. The salary number looks real, the title looks cleaner, and the phone becomes pleasant to check because the old anxiety

Still Not Broken Enough

A bad workplace, a strained company, and a war economy can all survive pressure for longer than expected, until one more shock reveals that the system has been spending hidden buffers all along.

You don't need them until you need them

Why countries keep building weapons even when everyone says they want peace: A simple ten-island model explains how nuclear deterrence works, and why Europe’s defense debate is about vulnerability.

Do You REALLY Need AI?

Companies are rushing to attach AI to every messy data problem. Sometimes that is exactly the right move. Often, the business first needs cleaner definitions, better rules, and systems that can answer the same question the same way every time.

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