"The Social Dilemma" reflects Tullock's contributions to areas of public choice that typically are ignored by mainstream scholars, who tend to focus on cooperative, democratic states. Tullock explores instead the workings of the dictatorial state and the economics of war between nations.Charles K. Rowley is Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He is also General Director of the Locke Institute.The entire series includes: Volume 1 "Virginia Political Economy"Volume 2 "The Calculus of Consent"Volume 3 "The Organization of Inquiry" (November 2004) Volume 4 "The Economics of Politics" (February 2005) Volume 5 "The Rent-Seeking Society" (March 2005) Volume 6 "Bureaucracy" (June 2005)Volume 7 "The Economics and Politics of Wealth Redistribution" (July 2005)Volume 8 "The Social Dilemma: Of Autocracy, Revolution, Coup d'Etat, and War" (December 2005)Volume 9 "Law and Economics" (December 2005)Volume 10 "Economics without Frontiers" (January 2006)

Part One - The Roots of the Social Dilemma; Part Two - The Goals and Organisational Forms of Autocracies; Part Three - Revolution and its Suppression; Part Four - The Coup d'Etat and its Suppression; Part Five - The Economics of War; Index.