Domenico De Masi (1 February 1938 – 9 September 2023) was an Italian sociologist. He was professor emeritus of sociology of work at the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", where he also was head of the Faculty of Communication Sciences. As a scholar, teacher, researcher and consultant his interest was in the sociology of work and organisations, post-industrial society, development and underdevelopment, urban systems, creativity, free time, methods and techniques of social research with particular regard to forecasting investigations. Source: Wikipedia (en)