Michele Boldrin
Michele Boldrin | |
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Boldrin in 2010 | |
| Born | 20 August 1956 Padua, Italy |
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| Doctoral advisor | Lionel W. McKenzie |
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| Discipline | Macroeconomics, general equilibrium, public policy |
| Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Notable ideas | Policy functions, endogenous fluctuations and chaos in dynamic models, growth theory |
Michele Boldrin (Italian: [miˈkɛːle bolˈdrin]; 20 August 1956) is an Italian-born academic, former politician, YouTuber, and economist working in the areas of economic growth, business cycles, technological progress, and intellectual property. He is the Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
Along with his colleague and co-author David Levine, he was part of the group of 200 economists publicly opposing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.