The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, evidence and democracy is a multi-author book edited by sociologists Andrea Mennicken and Robert Salais and published in 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan.

[needs copy edit] The volume[2] sets out to investigate the power of numbers, how they travel across countries and domains, how they may be implicated in dreams of making things differently and creating new worlds, and how they establish new regimes of accountability and regulation.

[5] It is inspired by two strands of research: one related to Foucauldian ideas of power and control, which were studied by historians and sociologists at the London School of Economics; and the other being the "economics of conventions" or "theory of conventions", studied by various French scholars, including Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot, and originally by Alain Desrosières.

[7] Uwe Vormbusch provides an account of the movement of the quantified self,[8] while Boris Samuel provides an example of Statactivism staged in French Guadeloupe.

Harro Maas writes that "it is just impossible to open a newspaper or news site without being reminded of the themes addressed in this volume" after having read the book.