L Storti
Biographic Data
| ID | 32587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Storti |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Storti |
| SIGNATURE | STORTI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3942-6477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why People Accept Inequality
Why do some people accept, or even approve of, economic inequalities? This essay examines various justifications—market, moral, cultural, and group-based—that people across the world invoke to defend their views
What Is Anti-work All About? Exploring the Meanings Behind Hostility towards Work
The growing disenchantment with working careers – commonly referred to as the ‘anti-work’ sentiment – has emerged as a form of critique of the current economic system. However, this phenomenon remains under-explored, particularly with regard to the subjective meaning of hostility towards work. This article proposes a conceptual map of the themes related to anti-work from the workers’ perspective, drawing on an empirical study of content posted wi…
Escape from Work? Distinctions within the Realm of Anti-Work
How can the diverse manifestations of anti-work be conceptualized? This paper examines the question through an empirical analysis of the most popular posts from the world's largest anti-work online community, hosted on Reddit. It identifies distinct categories of anti-workers, defined by their stance on work/anti-work and whether their actions are individual or collective. In doing so, the paper highlights the interplay between structural grievan…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks: A Conceptual Mapping
How do economic elites react to global shocks? Here, global shocks refer to events that disrupt both the economy and society, such as economic crises, political regime collapses, natural and climate disasters, and collective health emergencies, including pandemics. These events have varied impacts across different geographical regions and population groups, including social classes and age cohorts. We argue that examining the relationship between…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks
Dissecting communities of renewable energy: A comparative investigation in New Aquitaine (France)
Market liberalization in the energy sectors has created several regulatory gaps that ‘heterodox forms’ of economic experiences – such as Community Renewable Energy Organizations (hereinafter, CREOs) – can fill. CREOs are cooperatives or corporations, financing the installation of energy devices. But how do CREOs establish themselves? What are the different ‘social features’ that CREOs assume over time? To deal with these questions, the paper inve…
A tale of two epicentres: Lombardy and New York City at the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic
The paper explores the tale of two 'epicentres’ – metropolitan New York and Lombardy – and seeks to depict the socio-demographic patterns that characterise the worst cases of infection, hospitalisation, and death during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. By drawing upon secondary data concerning sub-territorial units within the two regions – ZIP-code level and counties in New York and municipalities in Italy – the paper compar…
Ports, Crime and Security: Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World
The COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and the US-China trade dispute have heightened interest in the geopolitics and security of modern ports. Ports are where contemporary societal dilemmas converge: the (de)regulation of international flows; the (in)visible impact of globalization; the perennial tension between trade and security; and the thin line between legitimate, illicit and illegal. Applying a multidisciplinary lens to the political economy of por…
Shaping space. A conceptual framework on the connections between organised crime groups and territories: An introduction to the special issue on ‘Spaces of Organised Crime’
This paper, which is the introduction to this special issue on ‘Spaces of Organised Crime’, aims to analyse the nexus between organised crime groups and territories. Such groups are able to exploit resources that circulate within territorial contexts in which they are embedded. They also operate concretely as entities that can take part to the transformation of spaces into places . Accordingly, we will lay out an analytical model about the proces…
Shocking events. Institutional reactions to abrupt changes
Survive or perish: Organised crime in the port of Montreal and the port of New York/New Jersey
Social class and wealth inequality in Italy over 20 years, 1993–2014
Italy is facing its worst economic crisis since the Second World War. As many studies have already shown, the crisis is affecting the country’s social class structure, thus accentuating several inequality tendencies. In this connection, the empirical purposes of this article are twofold: (1) to analyze whether accumulation and inequality in wealth are growing or declining in absolute terms; and (2) to investigate the relationship between social c…
Undisciplined, selfish big babies? The cultural framing of the Italian financial crisis
In the public debate played out in the media, the financial crisis in Italy is often depicted through a culturalist frame; the country’s difficulties are traced deterministically to an ethos, supposedly widespread among Italians, of amoral familism and a limited sense of civic engagement. This paper illustrates three issues that exemplify the country’s financial problems, and which are often seen through this type of culturalist lens: i) a lack o…
Social cohesion and economic development: Some reflections on the Italian case
The processes of globalisation, market deregulation and the retreat of the welfare state in advanced capitalist societies have revitalised the debate about how to reconcile economic development and social cohesion. This debate has been widespread in Italy, where great differences occur between local contexts as regards economic performance, the level of inequality and, more generally, the cohesion of the social fabric. Within this framework, this…
Social class and wealth inequality in Italy over 20 years, 1993–2014
Italy is facing its worst economic crisis since the Second World War. As many studies have already shown, the crisis is affecting the country’s social class structure, thus accentuating several inequality tendencies. In this connection, the empirical purposes of this article are twofold: (1) to analyze whether accumulation and inequality in wealth are growing or declining in absolute terms; and (2) to investigate the relationship between social c…
Survive or perish: Organised crime in the port of Montreal and the port of New York/New Jersey
Escape from Work? Distinctions within the Realm of Anti-Work
How can the diverse manifestations of anti-work be conceptualized? This paper examines the question through an empirical analysis of the most popular posts from the world's largest anti-work online community, hosted on Reddit. It identifies distinct categories of anti-workers, defined by their stance on work/anti-work and whether their actions are individual or collective. In doing so, the paper highlights the interplay between structural grievan…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks: A Conceptual Mapping
How do economic elites react to global shocks? Here, global shocks refer to events that disrupt both the economy and society, such as economic crises, political regime collapses, natural and climate disasters, and collective health emergencies, including pandemics. These events have varied impacts across different geographical regions and population groups, including social classes and age cohorts. We argue that examining the relationship between…
Social cohesion and economic development: Some reflections on the Italian case
The processes of globalisation, market deregulation and the retreat of the welfare state in advanced capitalist societies have revitalised the debate about how to reconcile economic development and social cohesion. This debate has been widespread in Italy, where great differences occur between local contexts as regards economic performance, the level of inequality and, more generally, the cohesion of the social fabric. Within this framework, this…
Social class and wealth inequality in Italy over 20 years, 1993–2014
Italy is facing its worst economic crisis since the Second World War. As many studies have already shown, the crisis is affecting the country’s social class structure, thus accentuating several inequality tendencies. In this connection, the empirical purposes of this article are twofold: (1) to analyze whether accumulation and inequality in wealth are growing or declining in absolute terms; and (2) to investigate the relationship between social c…
Undisciplined, selfish big babies? The cultural framing of the Italian financial crisis
In the public debate played out in the media, the financial crisis in Italy is often depicted through a culturalist frame; the country’s difficulties are traced deterministically to an ethos, supposedly widespread among Italians, of amoral familism and a limited sense of civic engagement. This paper illustrates three issues that exemplify the country’s financial problems, and which are often seen through this type of culturalist lens: i) a lack o…
Survive or perish: Organised crime in the port of Montreal and the port of New York/New Jersey
Ports, Crime and Security: Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World
The COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and the US-China trade dispute have heightened interest in the geopolitics and security of modern ports. Ports are where contemporary societal dilemmas converge: the (de)regulation of international flows; the (in)visible impact of globalization; the perennial tension between trade and security; and the thin line between legitimate, illicit and illegal. Applying a multidisciplinary lens to the political economy of por…
Shaping space. A conceptual framework on the connections between organised crime groups and territories: An introduction to the special issue on ‘Spaces of Organised Crime’
This paper, which is the introduction to this special issue on ‘Spaces of Organised Crime’, aims to analyse the nexus between organised crime groups and territories. Such groups are able to exploit resources that circulate within territorial contexts in which they are embedded. They also operate concretely as entities that can take part to the transformation of spaces into places . Accordingly, we will lay out an analytical model about the proces…
Shocking events. Institutional reactions to abrupt changes
A tale of two epicentres: Lombardy and New York City at the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic
The paper explores the tale of two 'epicentres’ – metropolitan New York and Lombardy – and seeks to depict the socio-demographic patterns that characterise the worst cases of infection, hospitalisation, and death during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. By drawing upon secondary data concerning sub-territorial units within the two regions – ZIP-code level and counties in New York and municipalities in Italy – the paper compar…
Dissecting communities of renewable energy: A comparative investigation in New Aquitaine (France)
Market liberalization in the energy sectors has created several regulatory gaps that ‘heterodox forms’ of economic experiences – such as Community Renewable Energy Organizations (hereinafter, CREOs) – can fill. CREOs are cooperatives or corporations, financing the installation of energy devices. But how do CREOs establish themselves? What are the different ‘social features’ that CREOs assume over time? To deal with these questions, the paper inve…
Escape from Work? Distinctions within the Realm of Anti-Work
How can the diverse manifestations of anti-work be conceptualized? This paper examines the question through an empirical analysis of the most popular posts from the world's largest anti-work online community, hosted on Reddit. It identifies distinct categories of anti-workers, defined by their stance on work/anti-work and whether their actions are individual or collective. In doing so, the paper highlights the interplay between structural grievan…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks: A Conceptual Mapping
How do economic elites react to global shocks? Here, global shocks refer to events that disrupt both the economy and society, such as economic crises, political regime collapses, natural and climate disasters, and collective health emergencies, including pandemics. These events have varied impacts across different geographical regions and population groups, including social classes and age cohorts. We argue that examining the relationship between…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks
Why People Accept Inequality
Why do some people accept, or even approve of, economic inequalities? This essay examines various justifications—market, moral, cultural, and group-based—that people across the world invoke to defend their views
What Is Anti-work All About? Exploring the Meanings Behind Hostility towards Work
The growing disenchantment with working careers – commonly referred to as the ‘anti-work’ sentiment – has emerged as a form of critique of the current economic system. However, this phenomenon remains under-explored, particularly with regard to the subjective meaning of hostility towards work. This article proposes a conceptual map of the themes related to anti-work from the workers’ perspective, drawing on an empirical study of content posted wi…
Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Economic system (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works)