Gross Domestic Problem, which sold more than 6 000 copies in less than a year, Prof Fioramonti has released a new book, How Numbers Rule the World. The book is an innovative and timely exposé of the politics, power and contestation of numbers in global politics.

According to bestselling author Raj Patel, "this book is a thoughtful political economic analysis of how our fates have come to be determined by a few numbers, and how these numbers have been shaped by a few people."

For Susan George, the book is "timely and original, scholarly without ostentation, often scathing: a field guide to the prejudices, assumptions, financial interests and ideology that lurk behind the most innocent-seeming numbers."

How Numbers Rule the World will be launched at Kings College London in the first week of February. More information on the book is available on the Zed Books website.