Michele Boldrin

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Michele Boldrin
Boldrin in 2010
Born	(1956-08-20) 20 August 1956 (age 68) Padua, Italy
Nationality	Italy United States
Academic career
Field	Macroeconomics, general equilibrium, public policy
Institution	Washington University in St. Louis
Alma mater	Ca' Foscari University of Venice University of Rochester
Doctoral advisor	Lionel W. McKenzie
Contributions	Policy functions, dynamic programming, 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.^[1][2]