- Ancient Civilization, Economic history, Economic conditions, Antiquité
To study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Sir Moses Finley showed that they were useless or misleading. Available again, with a new foreword by Ian Morris, these sagacious, fertile, and occasionally combative essays are just as electrifying today as when Finley first wrote them.
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Cool, classical in form, earnest and epic.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- M. I. Finley
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, Penguin, Hogarth Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780701119683
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Sir Moses I. Finley CBE, FBA (May 20, 1912–June 23, 1986) was an American and English classical scholar. 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. He was born in 1912 in New York City as Moses Israel Finkelstein to Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzenellenbogen; died in 1986 as a British subject. He was educated at Syracuse University and Columbia University. Although his M.A. was in public law, most of his published work was in the field of ancient history, especially the social and economic aspects of the classical world. He taught at Columbia University and
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