William Forster Lloyd

Thinkers1794 to 1852Economist

Works

  • Two Lectures on the Checks to Population, 1833

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Known for

Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1832 to 1837. His lectures described how a shared pasture invites overgrazing, because each commoner gains from adding an animal while the cost is spread across all users, the example Garrett Hardin later built on.

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