Tuesday links: Samsung, Jakarta, China's infrastructure, national happiness and more

17 December 2013 16:56

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.

'Down and out down under'