Areas of research
- Governance of social organizations
- Structural Change in Multisectoral Models
- Social and solidarity economy
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development
- Economics of Energy, Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development
- History of Economic Thought
- History and Methodology of Quantitative Economics (20th & 21th centuries)
- Input-output Analysis & Social Accounting Matrices, Linear Programming
- History and Methodology of Economic Measurement, Statistics and National Accounting
Areas of teaching
- Macroeconomics
- Mathematics for Management
- Microeconomics
Publications from the last 5 years
Articles
AKHABBAR, A. (2026). Facts to Defend American Democracy: Willford Isbell King’s National Income Estimates and the Beginnings of the NBER. History of Political Economy, 58(4), pp. 491-523.
AKHABBAR, A. (2026). The “Official Opponent”? Wassily Leontief’s Idea of Econometric Methods, and the “Expansion of the Field of Direct Observation”. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 48(3), pp. 289-313.
AKHABBAR, A. (2025). Book review: VERENA HALSMAYER, Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024. History of Economic Thought and Policy, 2025(2), pp. 169-200.
AKHABBAR, A. (2022). Book review: Statistical Economics is What Statistical Economists Do: Progress Through Regression: The Life Story of the Empirical Cobb–Douglas Production Function, by Jeff E. Biddle. History of Economic Ideas, 2022(3).
AKHABBAR, A. (2021). The Case Against "Indirect" Statistical Inference: Wassily Leontief's "Direct Induction" and The Structure of American Economy, 1919—1929. History of Political Economy, 53(S1), pp. 259–292.
Conference papers (with selection committee)
AKHABBAR, A. (2026). Quantifying the Economy: New Leads in the History of Statistical Estimation of National Income in the United States. In: Colloque du Réseau en Épistémologie et en Histoire de la Pensée Économique Récente (REHPERE), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
AKHABBAR, A. (2026). The Troubles with the NBER’s National Income Estimates in the Interwar. In: ESHET-HES joint conference. HES, ESHET, Campus Saint-Jean d'Angély, Université Nice Côte d'Azur.
AKHABBAR, A. (2025). Facts to Save American Democracy: The National Income in the US (1914 1930). In: Colloque du Réseau en épistémologie et histoire de la pensée économique récente (Rehpere), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Maison des sciences économiques, Paris.
AKHABBAR, A. (2022). Retour en URSS : Le débat sur les "origines soviétiques" de l'analyse input-output de Wassily Leontief. In: XIXe colloque international de l’Association Charles Gide. Université Paris 1.
AKHABBAR, A. (2021). "Ask an Engineer": Input Output Ratios from Engineering to Economics. In: History of Economics Society (HES) Conference. Utrecht.
Books chapters and other contributions
HOERBER, T., AGAFONOW, A. and AKHABBAR, A. (2021). On the verge of a second revolution in the European Union’s utilities market for energy production? The role of social enterprises. In: Jenny M. Fairbrass, Nicholas Vasilakos eds. Emerging Governance of a Green Economy. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, pp. 54-73.