Gordon Tullock is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Mason University. Tullock received a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1947. Although his training is in law, not economics, he is an intellectual giant in the fields of economics and public choice and is considered one of the fathers of public choice theory. Professor Tullock is best known for inventing the concept of rent-seeking: the use of political or institutional power to extract wealth transfers from the rest of the economy. He is the author of 16 books and more than 150 papers.