Michele Boldrin
Michele Boldrin | |
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Boldrin in 2010 | |
| Born | 20 August 1956 Padua, Italy |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor | Lionel W. McKenzie |
| Academic work | |
| 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, politician, YouTuber, and economist specializing in economic growth, business cycles, technological change, and intellectual property. He is the Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and the Secretary of the Italian political party Ora! (“Now!”).
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.