![]() ![]() Venkatesh should be a familiar figure: He was the guy who hung around young drug dealers, discovered that most of them don’t earn very much money and still live with their mothers, and asked why anyone would get into the business in the first place. If you’ve read the best-selling Freakonomics, Mr. Venkatesh did draw on his experiences in his dissertation, and in several much-discussed academic papers, the final result of his sojourn is Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Penguin Press, 320 pages, $25.95). Tyler Cowen calls Sudhir Venkatesh A Dealer in the Ivory Tower:īeginning in 1989, Sudhir Venkatesh, now a professor at Columbia University, followed around a Chicago gang leader, identified only as J.T., for about six years, ostensibly to complete his sociology Ph.D.
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