Bobby Axelrod = Jeffrey Sachs
After watching a recent episode of Q&A on C-SPAN with author Sheelah Kolhatkar about hear book "Black Edge" https://www.c-span.org/video/?423836-1/qa-sheelah-kolhatkar,
I'm pretty sure the Bobby Axelrod character must be based a whole lot on Jeffrey Sachs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs