Sudhir Venkatesh: 2 books
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
**A New York Times Bestseller
Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of** Freakonomics
When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice...
Floating City
A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich and poor that secretly weaves together the whole...