How Long to Read Two Lectures on the Checks to Population

How Long Does it Take to Read Two Lectures on the Checks to Population?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 7 minutes to read Two Lectures on the Checks to Population by William Forster Lloyd

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William Forster Lloyd FRS (1794 - 2 June 1852) was a British writer on economics. He is best known today for one of his 1833 lectures on population control which have influenced writers in modern economic theory. Born in 1794 at Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA in 1815 and MA in 1818. He was Greek Reader in 1823, Mathematical lecturer and Drummond Professor of Political Economy (1832-1837) at Christ Church, Oxford (successor to Nassau Senior). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834, and died at Prestwood, Missenden, Buckinghamshire in 1852. Lloyd published several of his lectures. In his Two Lectures on the Checks to Population (1833) he introduced the concept of the overuse of a common by its commoners (i.e. those with rights of use and access to it), which was later to be developed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin and termed by Hardin "The Tragedy of the Commons." However, Hardin's use of "commons" has frequently been misunderstood, leading him to later remark that he should have titled his work "The Tragedy of the Unregulated Commons." The key passage in Lloyd's work is: "If a person puts more cattle into his own field, the amount of the subsistence which they consume is all deducted from that which was at the command, of his original stock; and if, before, there was no more than a sufficiency of pasture, he reaps no benefit from the additional cattle, what is gained in one way being lost in another. But if he puts more cattle on a common, the food which they consume forms a deduction which is shared between all the cattle, as well that of others as his own, in proportion to their number, and only a small part of it is taken from his own cattle. In an inclosed pasture, there is a point of saturation, if I may so call it, (by which, I mean a barrier depending on considerations of interest, ) beyond which no prudent man will add to his stock. In a common, also, there is in like manner a point of saturation. But the position of the point in the two cases is obviously different. Were a number of adjoining pastures, already fully stocked, to be at once thrown open, and converted into one vast common, the position of the point of saturation would immediately be changed."

How long is Two Lectures on the Checks to Population?

Two Lectures on the Checks to Population by William Forster Lloyd is 66 pages long, and a total of 16,896 words.

This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 21% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Two Lectures on the Checks to Population Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 32 minutes to read Two Lectures on the Checks to Population aloud.

What Reading Level is Two Lectures on the Checks to Population?

Two Lectures on the Checks to Population is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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