New York's Underground Economy

By
Sudhir Venkatesh
The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 25, 2013

Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia professor of sociology and the author of Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy, offers a sociologist's view of New York's illicit markets -- for drugs, sex and undocumented labor -- and how they differ from Chicago's.

 

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