Sudhir Venkatesh Responds to the Freakonomics Community
…saw. I’ve collaborated with students and faculty in all of my research — with gangs, sex workers, public housing residents, etc. In general, I think there is a healthy and…
…saw. I’ve collaborated with students and faculty in all of my research — with gangs, sex workers, public housing residents, etc. In general, I think there is a healthy and…
What’s it like to try and police millions of pieces of abusive content every day? Sudhir takes us inside Facebook, as he and his former colleagues recall how hard it…
…Carmen (and, certainly, many more examples from music, art, etc.) would have made a nice addition to the chart. And here’s another recent nominee: gang hand signals. It wasn’t long…
…they ranked the responsible gang first about 50 percent of the time. To develop their technique, the mathematicians studied a combination of solved and unsolved gang crimes throughout East L.A….
Social psychologist Malcolm Klein devised a test for Los Angeles that he says predicts how likely a child is to join a gang, reports the Wall Street Journal. The test,…
Sudhir Venkatesh has become pretty well known in these parts as an authority on the inner workings of criminal street gangs. His new book is out tomorrow; but today, here’s…
…perhaps they would stay more involved in their lives.” Growing up in gangs and living the gang lifestyle, I have firsthand knowledge [of this issue] after seeing so many people…
Sudhir Venkatesh, who’s got a dialog with Alex Kotlowitz over at “Slate” about his new book “Gang Leader for a Day,” is back now with his fourth installment of watching…
Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia sociologist and author of “Gang Leader for a Day,” is back once again for an eighth report after watching “The Wire” with a group of gangland acquaintances….
Sudhir Venkatesh, our good friend and author of the new book “Gang Leader for a Day,” continues today with his weekly mission of watching “The Wire” with some real gang…
…platforms for like-minded people, a publicly owned social network, self-policing by user groups, or activist campaigns to pressure Twitter and Facebook to improve, Sudhir explores what’s next for social media…
Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia sociologist and author of “Gang Leader for a Day,” is back for a sixth report after watching “The Wire” with a group of gangland acquaintances. His past…
…Gang’s Finances By Steven D. Levitt, Sudhir Venkatesh The Notorious 100:1 Crack: Powder Disparity-Powder Disparity: The Data Tell Us that It Is Time to Restore the Balance By Alfred Blumstein…
Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia sociologist and author of “Gang Leader for a Day,” is back once again with his chronicle of watching “The Wire” with a group of gangland acquaintances. His…
…how Sudhir, thoughtful and insightful as always, replied: Why did i use “nigger,” not “nigga”? That is an interesting question. In the late 1980s, the lexical differences between the two…
Levitt had some advice last week for our friend Sudhir Venkatesh, who went on The Colbert Report to talk about his book, Gang Leader for a Day. Sudhir sure seemed…
There are a lot of factors that go into greatness, many of which are not obvious. A variety of Olympic and professional athletes tell us how they made it and…
How has activism evolved in our digital society? In this episode, Sudhir talks to Jade Magnus Ogunnaike about the intersection of big tech and civil rights. She is a senior…
…drug gang is built very much like an American corporation. The people at the top have a lot of money, but the people at the bottom are making roughly minimum…
…dissertation research in East Germany in the early 1960s. It pales in comparison, but when Sudhir Venkatesh and I were doing research on gangs there was always a lingering concern…
…of the piece, however. Landesman argues that the gang problem is worse than it has ever been, and that gang violence hasn’t dropped the way other crimes have. A quick…
Sudhir Venkatesh’s book Gang Leader for a Day has been optioned for a film to be directed by Craig Brewer, who wrote and directed Hustle & Flow. Who should play…
Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia sociologist and author of “Gang Leader for a Day,” is back once again for a seventh report after watching “The Wire” with a group of gangland acquaintances….
Stephen Dubner’s conversation with the Facebook founder and C.E.O., recorded for the Freakonomics Radio series “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.”…
…on WGN radio tonight between 9 PM and 11 PM Central time, as a guest on the Milt Rosenberg show, which you can listen to online. Also in Chicago, Sudhir…
In this special crossover episode, People I (Mostly) Admire host Steve Levitt admits to No Stupid Questions co-host Angela Duckworth that he knows almost nothing about psychology. But once Angela…
There are a lot of factors that go into greatness, many of which are not obvious. As the Olympics come to a close, we revisit a 2018 episode in which…
If you think talent and hard work give top athletes all the leverage to succeed, think again. As employees in the Sports-Industrial Complex, they’ve got a tight earnings window, a…
…right, the prohibition is akin to the “no gang colors” restrictions which can be found stateside. But unlike gang colors, a tattoo is harder to remove. And the no tattoo…
Conventional programs tend to be expensive, onerous, and ineffective. Could something as simple (and cheap) as cognitive behavioral therapy do the trick?
