Moses I. Finley
Sir Moses Israel Finley 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.
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversitySyracuse University
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Wolfson History Prize🏆 Commander of the Order of the British Empire🏆 Fellow of the British Academy
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 William Linn Westermann
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Trending topics shown first"And nothing inhibited fourth-century orators in the assembly and the law-courts from indulging in savage slander, without a touch of humour in it."
"Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato."
"A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks."
"Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies."
"We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutuall…"
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1912
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