The fifth volume in The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock consists of six parts, each part expounding on a separate component of the field. Part 1, “Rent Seeking: An Overview,” brings together two papers that focus on problems of defining rent-seeking behavior and outline the nature of the ongoing research program in a historical perspective. Part 2, “More on Efficient Rent Seeking,” contains four contributions in which Tullock elaborates on his 1980 article on efficient rent seeking. Part 3, “The Environments of Rent Seeking,” consists of eight papers that collectively display the breadth of the rent-seeking concept. Part 4, “The Cost of Rent Seeking,” comprises seven papers that address several important issues about the cost of rent seeking to society as a whole. Part 5 is Tullock’s short monograph Exchanges and Contracts, in which he develops a systematic theory of exchange in political markets. In Part 6, “Future Directions for Rent-Seeking Research,” Tullock focuses on the importance of information in the political marketplace. This work has been carefully constructed to build on the inaugural volume in this collection and to ease students through the field in a clear and concise manner.

《戈登·图洛克选集》的第五卷由六个部分组成，每个部分阐述了该领域的一个单独部分。第1部分“寻租：概述”汇集了两篇论文，重点阐述了寻租行为的定义问题，并从历史的角度概述了正在进行的研究项目的性质。第二部分，“更多关于有效寻租”包含四篇文章，塔洛克在其中详细阐述了他1980年关于有效寻租的文章。第三部分“寻租环境”由八篇论文组成，集中展示了寻租概念的广度。第四部分“寻租成本”包括七篇论文，讨论了关于整个社会寻租成本的几个重要问题。第五部分是图洛克的短篇专著《交换与契约》，其中他发展了一套系统的政治市场交换理论。在第6部分“寻租研究的未来方向”中，Tullock重点阐述了信息在政治市场中的重要性。这部作品经过精心构建，以本系列的创始卷为基础，并以清晰简洁的方式让学生轻松通过该领域。