# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/moses-i-finley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:59:25.306Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/moses-i-finley"
name: "Moses I. Finley"
slug: "moses-i-finley"
description: "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."
tagline: "American-born British academic and classical scholar (1912–1986)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1912-05-20"
deathDate: "1986-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump