Moses Finley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Moses Finley

American historian

Date of Birth: 20-May-1912

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jun-1986

Profession: historian, ethnologist, university teacher, classical scholar

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Sir Moses Isaac Finley, FBA (born Finkelstein; 20 May 1912 – 23 June 1986) was an American-born British academic and classical scholar.
His prosecution by the McCarran Security Committee led to his move to England, where he became an English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge.
His most notable work is The Ancient Economy (1973), where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations.