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Research within the history of economic thought has focused only little on the development of economics under dictatorship. This paper attempts to show how a country with a relatively large and internationally established community of social scientists in the 1920s, the Soviet Union, was subjected to repression. We tell this story through the case of Isaak Il'ich Rubin, a prominent Russian economist and historian of economic thought, who in the late 1920s was denounced by rival scholars and repressed by the political system. By focusing not only on his life and work, but also on that of his opponents and institutional clashes, we show how the decline of a social science tradition in Russia and the USSR as well as the Stalinization of Soviet social sciences emerged as a process over time. We analyze the complex interplay of ideas, scholars, and their institutional context, and conclude that subsequent repression was arbitrary, suggesting that no clear survival or career strategy existed in the Stalinist system, due to a situation of fundamental uncertainty.

Chapter 1. An Overview of Stated Preference Methods: What and Why -- Chapter 2. A Comparison of Stated Preference Methods -- Chapter 3. Understanding the Fundamentals of DCE Experiment -- Chapter 4. A Review of R and its Applicability DCE -- Chapter 5. Framing the Research Question and Theory -- Chapter 6. Identifying DCE Attributes and Levels -- Chapter 7. Designing DCE Choice Set using R -- Chapter 8. Designing DCE Survey and Collecting Data -- Chapter 9. Analysing DCE Data using R -- Chapter 10. Visualizing and Reporting DCE Data Using R.