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 Andrew  Lonsdale

Andrew Lonsdale

Research Assistant

International Inequalities Institute

Languages
English, French
Key Expertise
Public Economics, Personal Taxation, Income and Wealth Inequality

About me

Andrew Lonsdale is a Research Assistant at the International Inequalities Institute at the ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ, working with Dr Arun Advani and Dr Andy Summers. His work focuses on the revenue and distributional impacts of potential reforms to capital gains tax.

Andrew holds masters degrees in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and in Public Policy and Administration from the ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ, and completed his undergraduate studies at McMaster University. He previously worked as a tax intern at the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Administration and as a research intern at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics.

Recent Publications

  • Trevisan, F., Vaughan, M. & Vromen, A. (2025). Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy. University of Michigan Press. 
  • Vaughan, M. & Schieferdecker, D. (2025), 'Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race”', International Journal of Communication, 19 (1), 348-369 
  • Vaughan, M., & Kerr, S. (2025). Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication. Visual Communication.
  • Vaughan, M., Gruber, J. B., & Langer, A. I. (2025). The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze. New Media & Society, 27(2), 632-654.