Marginal Revolution Book Rankings
Tyler and Alex's favorites from Marginal Revolution
How it works: I scraped every post categorized under 'books'. Then extracted book titles and relevant review context from each post. I then submitted a couple million pairs of reviews to an LLM to compare and determine which book review had more positive sentiment. I used these comparisons to fit a Bradley-Terry model which produces these rankings. I racked up a gemini bill so stopped shy of exhaustive 16 million comparisons, so it's not perfect, but roughly accurate.
Showing 54 books in African History
P
BT: -0.10
364 comparisons
T
BT: -0.11
350 comparisons
T
BT: -0.13
354 comparisons
D
BT: -0.31
334 comparisons
U
BT: -0.50
346 comparisons
T
BT: -0.55
363 comparisons
E
BT: -0.61
325 comparisons
T
BT: -0.66
374 comparisons
S
BT: -0.89
377 comparisons
B
BT: -1.80
550 comparisons
D
BT: -2.17
374 comparisons
W
BT: -2.26
375 comparisons
U
BT: -2.37
400 comparisons
W
BT: -2.38
351 comparisons
F
BT: -2.46
337 comparisons
E
BT: -2.50
344 comparisons
T
BT: -2.54
335 comparisons
T
BT: -2.59
373 comparisons
R
BT: -2.59
364 comparisons
M
BT: -2.79
354 comparisons
B
BT: -3.60
333 comparisons
B
BT: -3.80
312 comparisons
T
BT: -3.86
274 comparisons
A
BT: -3.87
289 comparisons
S
BT: -3.97
241 comparisons
