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.

Genre: Economics ×
Showing 1672 books in Economics
A
BT: 5.19 151 comparisons
M
248. Macro
BT: 3.08 412 comparisons
M
BT: 2.95 741 comparisons
F
568. Free
BT: 0.81 315 comparisons
B
BT: 0.64 1606 comparisons
T
BT: 0.50 346 comparisons
T
BT: 0.10 3542 comparisons
A
BT: -0.42 1441 comparisons
W
BT: -1.26 387 comparisons
M
BT: -1.51 1101 comparisons
F
1125. Fraud
BT: -1.58 384 comparisons
P
BT: -1.70 416 comparisons
H
BT: -1.74 761 comparisons
E
BT: -1.86 379 comparisons
O
BT: -2.05 1278 comparisons
F
BT: -2.10 347 comparisons
e
BT: -2.10 339 comparisons
E
BT: -2.76 620 comparisons