Moses Finley
American-born British academic (1912–1986) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Moses Israel Finley FBA (born Finkelstein; 20 May 1912 – 23 June 1986) was an American-born British academic and classical scholar. His prosecution by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security during the 1950s resulted in his relocation to England, where he became an English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge. His most notable publication is The Ancient Economy (1973) in which he argued that the economy in antiquity was governed by status and civic ideology, rather than rational economic motivations.
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Born | Moses Israel Finkelstein (1912-05-20)20 May 1912 New York City, New York, United States |
Died | 23 June 1986(1986-06-23) (aged 74) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
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Mary (m. 1932–1986) |
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Discipline | Classics |
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School or tradition | Frankfurt School |
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