found: His Prospects for economic development in southern Asia, 1950.
found: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1915; d. 1974)
found: Wikipedia, April 14, 2021(Daniel Thorner; Daniel Thorner (1915-1974) was an American economist known for his work on agricultural economics and Indian economic history; he is known for the application of historical and contemporary economic analysis on policy and influenced agricultural policy in India in the 1950s through his association with the Planning Commission; along with D. D. Kosambi and R. S. Sharma, he brought peasants into the study of Indian history for the first time; he started his graduate studies at Columbia University in the 1930s, and served in the Office of Strategic Services before moving to India at the end of World War II; he completed his thesis on the conditions of the British railway and steam ship enterprise in India in 1950, later published as a book; he subsequently joined the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Regional Studies Program to teach Indian economic history; he married Alice Thorner (nee Ginsberg), who was a collaborator and co-author of many of his works on India; he left India in 1962 to take up an academic position at School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences; he edited the works of Harold H. Mann, an economist and Alexander Chayanov; he continued to visit South Asia often and helped with the escape from persecution of some intellectuals from Dhaka during the Bangladesh Liberation War; after a brief period of illness, he died in 1974)
found: ancestry.com, April 14, 2021(Daniel Thorner; born May 14, 1915 in New York City, New York; died June 18, 1974 in Paris, Île de France, France; married Alice Ginsberg on April 13, 1939 in New York, New York)