Paola Buonadonna explores the challenges facing economic statisticians as they attempt to measure the modern economy in seven conversations, recorded behind the scenes at ESCoE’s annual conference, organised with ONS and the Bank of England, which took place at the Bank of Enagland on 16 and 17 May 2018. Featuring Rebecca Riley, ESCoE’s Director, Nick Bloom, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, Eric Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT initiative on the Digital Economy, Kevin J Fox from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Louisa Nolan, from the ONS Data Science Campus and Jonathan Athow, Deputy National Statistician at the ONS.