- Nice profile of Samsung, a company whose sales are equal to one-quarter of South Korea's economic output.
- The New Yorker charts the history of American intelligence agencies' spying on their own citizens.
- Walter Russell Mead on China's South-North Water Diversion Project, 'perhaps the largest and most expensive infrastructure enterprise in the history of the human race.'
- A new landmark skyscraper for Jakarta, which currently has a pretty uninspiring skyline. Now to tackle the traffic problem, and particularly Jakarta's freelance traffic cops.
- Long, detailed and highly technical assessment of the submarine balance of power between the US and China.
- Summing up the year for America's economy in graph form.
- Do rich countries get happier as they get even richer? Two economists settle a bet.
Tuesday links: Samsung, Jakarta, China's infrastructure, national happiness and more
Published 17 Dec 2013
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