“寻租”,作为一个经济学概念,产生至今还不过十来年而已。然而其理论影响力却遍及经济学的各个分支,乃至为社会学、政治学、行政管理学等等其他社会科学学科,亦提供了新的研究思考。寻租理论的指出,使经济学研究的眼界从资源在生产领域的配置问题,扩展到资源 “Rent-seeking”, as an economic concept, has not come into existence for just ten years. However, its theoretical influence has spread all over the branches of economics and even provided new research considerations for other social science disciplines such as sociology, political science and administrative management. The theory of rent-seeking pointed out that the vision of economics should be expanded from the allocation of resources in the field of production to resources