Wednesday links: China child abduction, Arctic methane, econoblogs and more

25 July 2013 14:47

The release of methane from melting Arctic permafrost could cost the world $60 trillion, says the journal Nature. The entire global economy was worth $70 trillion in 2012.
Economists are taught too little history.
The ten most expensive cities in the world. You'll never guess no.1.
The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf is astounded by Michael Hayden's interview with the Financial Review.
Do economics blog change minds? Yes.
Robot planes are the future of war at sea, but Mav and Goose are not out of a job just yet.
Charlie Custer writes about child abduction in China. He's also made a documentary about it:

'Down and out down under'