Amanar Akhabbar

Biographic Data

ID1600544
NAMEAmanar Akhabbar
GIVEN NAMESAmanar
FAMILY NAMEAkhabbar
SIGNATUREAKHABBAR A
AFFILIATIONSESSCA School of Management
ORCID0009-0008-6648-1675
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The “Official Opponent”? Wassily Leontief’s Idea of Econometric Methods

    Open AccessAmanar AkhabbarARTICLEJournal of the History of…2026

    Several recent works have explored Wassily Leontief’s distinction between standard econometrics, which he called “indirect statistical inference,” and a “direct induction” he called “direct observation.” These works usually understand Leontief’s direct induction through the lens of input-output analysis. I argue that this is too narrow a perspective. Instead, I show how this distinction stemmed from Leontief’s (1929, 1932a) econometric work, when…

  • Facts to Defend American Democracy: Willford Isbell King's National Income Estimates and the Beginnings of the NBER

    Amanar AkhabbarARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2026

    The desire to place public opinion on a rational footing through the production and communication of objective, impartial information fostered the development of statistical estimates of national income in the 1910s and 1920s. This article explores the case of Willford I. King, who made notable contributions to income estimation and was hired by Wesley C. Mitchell in 1920 at the founding of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). King's …

  • The Case against "Indirect" Statistical Inference

    Amanar AkhabbarARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2021Cited by: 1References: 27

    How to infer from uncontrolled data the numerical values of the parameters of an econometric model? In interwar econometrics, this problem of statistical induction was tackled in various ways. Wassily Leontief's inter-industry method offers a case study of a nonprobabilistic approach to this problem of the statistical determination of a model's parameters. Leontief was an outspoken critic of the probabilistic approach to econometrics and presente…

  • Studying the Balance of the National Economy: An Introduction (A Translation)

    Pavel Illich Popov, Amanar AkhabbarCHAPTERResearch Annual2014

    This chapter offers the first full translation from Russian to English of the Balance of the National Economy of the USSR, 1924–26’s first chapter. Involving 12 authors and composed of 21 chapters, the Balance is a collective work published in June 1926 in Moscow by the Soviet Central Statistical Administration under the scientific supervision of its former director, Pavel Illich Popov (1872–1950). In this first chapter, titled ‘Studying the Bala…

  • Statistical Economic Balances in Unbalanced Times. The Balance of the National Economy of the USSR, 1923 – 24: Pavel Illich Popov’s Contribution

    Open AccessAmanar AkhabbarCHAPTERResearch Annual2014

    This chapter provides a presentation about Chapter 1 of The Balance of the National Economy, 1923–24, edited by Pavel Illich Popov. The Balance was issued in June 1926 by the Central Statistical Administration (CSU or TsSU) of the USSR, which Popov had headed from July 1918 to January 1926. In the first part of our chapter, we show how Popov’s work on the balance of the national economy was rooted in the specific scientific and political culture …

  • La Direction centrale de la statistique et la « Balance de l’économie nationale de l’URSS en 1923-24 »: La contribution de Pavel Illitch Popov à la théorie et à l’ingénierie de la planification économ…

    Open AccessAmanar AkhabbarARTICLEOEconomia2014Cited by: 1References: 12

    La Direction centrale de la statistique soviétique, la TsSOU, est créée en 1918 avec le soutien de Lénine. Pavel Illitch Popov en est le premier directeur (1918-1926). Centralisant le système régional des zemstva hérité du régime tsariste, la TsSOU est le cœur névralgique de la statistique soviétique pendant la NEP avant d’être dominée puis absorbée par le Gosplan. A la TsSOU, Popov défend sa vision d’une statistique qui, au service de la révolut…

  • Russian Political Economy from Utopia to Social Engineering: An Introduction

    Open AccessAmanar Akhabbar, François AllissonARTICLEOEconomia2014References: 5

    Utopias [are to be] set alongside the constructions of engineers, and one might with full justice call them constructions of social engineers...Utopias were relegated to the history of economic theory, whereas they belong to the theory itself, just as the construction of new bridges and aeroplanes belong into the theory of civil or mechanical engineering. (Otto Neurath, 1919, 150-152) In September 2009, the editors of this special issue organized…

  • Input-Output in Europe: Trends in Research and Applications

    Open AccessAmanar Akhabbar, Gabrielle Antille et al.ARTICLEOEconomia2011References: 4

    Indéniablement née aux USA, l’analyse input-output n’en a pas moins une importante histoire européenne, qu’il s’agisse en amont des travaux des économistes russes ou européens et en aval du développement massif de cette technique en Europe de l’Ouest et du Nord. Cet article étudie l’expérience européenne de l’analyse input-output en passant en revue certaines expériences nationales et en particulier les travaux de Richard Stone et de son équipe e…

  • L’étrange victoire*. Leontief et la transformation de la science économique: De la « planification sans théorie » à la « mesure sans théorie », 1920-1949

    Amanar AkhabbarARTICLERevue européenne des sciences…2010Cited by: 1References: 5

    Le savoir n’est pas la science, surtout dans sa forme contemporaine ; et celle-ci, bien loin de pouvoir occulter le problème de sa légitimité, ne peut manquer de le poser dans toute son ampleur qui n’est pas moins socio-politique qu’épistémologique. »Jean-François Lyotard, La Condition postmoderne, 1979, p. 36. Pourquoi choisir comme cas d’étude l’analyse input-output ? La réponse se trouve du côté de l’historiographie économique récente. L’histo…