Satya
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor of Economics and Finance |
| Location | Massachusetts, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | My "I" is constantly changing (perhaps this is merely AD/HD): overdetermined nexus of cultural forces emanating from several continents: skeptical of all Truths and seeker of the truth: iconoclast by enculturation, brain chemistry, and, perhaps, choice: perpetually perplexed, particularly about why we exist/ as the manifestation of overdetermined forces whose existence (and nature) is not as solid (or simplistic) as we would like. |
| Interests | the Pacific Northwest, the Bay Area, economic development, corporate finance, cultural anthropology, behavioral finance, wushu/gung fu, science fiction, vegetarian cooking, economics of cyberspace, writing, poetry, vegetarianism, Arsenal Gunners, tax reform, micro-finance, the stock market, comparative economic systems, China, ontology, Python, hacking code, quantum physics, Zen |
| Favorite Movies | The Night of the Iguana, The Wizard of Oz, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), It's a Wonderful Life, Brother John, The Big Chill, Field of Dreams, Far from Heaven, Matewan, Wall Street, Lost in Translation, Six Degrees of Separation, Bagdad Cafe, The Lion in Winter, Brother from Another Planet, Jean de Florette, Being There, The Paper Chase, The Man from Earth, The Nephew, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Bladerunner, The Verdict, Children of Men, Missing, Phenomenon, Z, The Visitor, Mindwalk, Seven Pounds |
| Favorite Music | Jazz, New Age, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Wynton Marsalis, Claude Debussey, Keith Jarrett, Joni Mitchell, Enya, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, John Klemmer, Oregon, Gordon Lightfoot, Tracy Chapman, Chick Correa, David Bowie, Lila Downs, Jill Sobule, Sarah McLachlan, Cat Stevens, the Beatles, Lara Fabian, Dixie Chicks, U2, Coldplay, Wyclef Jean, Amy MacDonald, Bird York, Gnarls Barkley |
| Favorite Books | The Hungry Tide, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Invisible Man, Catch-22, The Grapes of Wrath, Beloved, Knowledge and Class, Capital, The Dispossessed, 1984, Cat's Cradle, Fahrenheit 451, The Golden Notebook, Kingdom of Fear, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Handmaid's Tale, The Secret History, The Futurological Congress, The Human Stain, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Stranger, The Kite Runner, Angela's Ashes, Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
I would prefer to start from Lao Cai, Viet Nam.