Arthur Turrell is the deputy director at the data science campus for the UK Office of National Statistics (ONS). Arthur is also a former researcher at the Bank of England and a nuclear fusion scientist. He joins Macro Musings to talk about his work at the Bank of England, the future of economic data, and his new book on nuclear fusion titled, *The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet*. Transcript for the episode can be found here. Arthur's Twitter: @arthurturrell Arthur's website: http://aeturrell.com/ Arthur's Bank of England profile: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/researchers/arthur-turrell Related Links: *The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet* by Arthur Turrell https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Star-Builders/Arthur-Turrell/9781982130664 *Coding for Economists* by Arthur Turrell https://aeturrell.github.io/coding-for-economists/intro.html *Why Software Is Eating The World* by Marc Andreessen https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460 *Solving Heterogeneous General Equilibrium Economic Models with Deep Reinforcement Learning* by Edward Hill, Marco Bardoscia, and Arthur Turrell https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.16977.pdf Princeton's *Net-Zero America* Project: https://netzeroamerica.princeton.edu/?explorer=year&state=national&table=2020&limit=200 David's blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David's Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

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