Sudhir Venkatesh

Suhir Vanketesh is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer whose studies examine the Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. Sudhir spent years in a 10-square-block neighborhood on Chicago's South Side observing the clandestine work of gangbangers and mechanics, prostitutes and pastors. Readers of Freakonomics will remember Sudhir as the University of Chicago graduate student whose fieldwork in the ghetto led... read full bio