Social Deconstructor: Using Math and Economics to Explore Real-World Problems

It was a long way from Markus M. Mobius's hometown in Saal, Germany, to Cambridge, where he did his doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But to get to his first job as an assistant professor of economics, all he had to do was drive across town.

Mr. Mobius, who is 29, joined the tenure track this summer at Harvard University. He has begun making a name for himself as a high-powered economic theorist who is not interested in just theory,

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