Michael Mandel delights in translating complex economic concepts into understandable, relevant, and exciting examples for  a broad audience. He received his Ph. D. in economics from Harvard University, where he studied the intricacies of game theory. he is currently a Senior Fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Chief Economic Strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington D.C.Previously Mandel was Chief Economist of BusinessWeek (now Bloomberg BusinessWeek ), where he regularly tackled such hot topics as the economics of immigration, the power of technological innovation to drive growth, the importance of foreign trade, and consequences of tax policy. Mandel's columns and cover stories won numerous awards, including the Excellence in Economic Journalism Award from the Institute on Political Journalism, the Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious prize for economic and financial journalism, and the Economic Journalist of the Year Award from the World Leadership Forum.