Moses Finley

Sir Moses Finley FBA
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
Spouse	Mary ​ (m. 1932⁠–⁠1986)​
Academic background
Alma mater	Syracuse University Columbia University
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Sub-discipline	Ancient History Ancient Greece Economy of ancient Greece Roman economy
School or tradition	Frankfurt School
Institutions	Columbia University City College of New York Rutgers University Jesus College, Cambridge Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Darwin College, Cambridge
Doctoral students	Paul Millett

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.