Dr Toke Aidt

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Toke Aidt is a Reader in Economics at the University of Cambridge, where he also serves as Director of the Keynes Fund. He specialises in the research areas of Public Choice and Political Economics. With these areas in mind, he has written widely, such as 'Franchise extension and fiscal structure in the United Kingdom 1820-1913: A new test of the Redistribution Hypothesis' (Cliometrica, 2022) and 'Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women's Vote' (Journal of Economic Literature, 2022).