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 78 books in Asian Studies
V
BT: -0.06
467 comparisons
A
BT: -0.15
444 comparisons
E
BT: -0.23
375 comparisons
C
BT: -0.51
363 comparisons
C
BT: -0.62
380 comparisons
T
BT: -0.64
379 comparisons
T
BT: -0.64
368 comparisons
A
BT: -0.67
385 comparisons
T
BT: -0.78
382 comparisons
H
BT: -0.89
733 comparisons
L
BT: -0.94
597 comparisons
I
BT: -0.95
532 comparisons
G
BT: -1.04
381 comparisons
R
BT: -1.06
359 comparisons
T
BT: -1.24
592 comparisons
H
BT: -1.53
424 comparisons
A
BT: -1.57
390 comparisons
I
BT: -1.57
362 comparisons
H
BT: -1.79
794 comparisons
C
BT: -1.83
390 comparisons
O
BT: -2.54
385 comparisons
H
BT: -2.81
372 comparisons
A
BT: -3.01
336 comparisons
E
BT: -3.26
667 comparisons
N
BT: -3.39
327 comparisons
A
BT: -3.47
343 comparisons
T
BT: -3.54
308 comparisons
T
BT: -3.75
300 comparisons
T
BT: -3.78
334 comparisons
W
BT: -3.82
282 comparisons
C
BT: -4.05
275 comparisons
T
BT: -4.06
247 comparisons
O
BT: -4.14
198 comparisons
C
BT: -4.17
252 comparisons