Episode description

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