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Thursday links: World working hours, privacy and politics, China's soft power and more

Sam Roggeveen
Published 24 Oct 2013 13:37   0 Comments  
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  • In OECD countries, people are working fewer hours than in 1990.
  • Sinica podcast: a close look at innovation in China.
  • 'Inter-generational discounting', or why we don't care if our grandkids' lives are ruined by climate change.
  • 'There is no correlation between expenditure on soft power activities and positive changes in attitudes towards China'.
  • Some new data on how China's ageing population will retard economic growth.
  • Evgeny Morozov says most discussions about retaining privacy in the age of online surveillance miss the point. Privacy is a political issue, and democracy is at risk.
  • New photos show what a strange-looking beast is the US Navy's new Zumwalt-class destroyer.
  • Transparency International ranks the corporate transparency of developing country multinationals.

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