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Sudhir venkatesh shot to fame with his book gang leader for a day and also with his contributions to the chapters in freakonomics where he analysed the behavior of drug peddlers and sex workers. Floating city is a sociological study of the modern nyc underbelly, as experienced by venkatesh in the years following his move to columbia to lecture in 1999. Hustlers, strivers, dealers, call girls and other lives in illicit new york by venkatesh, sudhir isbn. Floating city and millions of other books are available for instant access. Whenever otherwise legitimate employers found themselves in need of some quick offthe books laborand they often did, even the hedge fund titans and investment banks down on wall. Sudhir venkatesh books list of books by author sudhir. A rogue sociologist lost and found in new yorks underground economya memoir of sociological investigation revealing the true face of americas most diverse citywas published in september 20 by penguin press.
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