Book Rankings iI scraped marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/category/books. I used gemini-2.5-flash because it's affordable and llama is too slow on my macbook. I had it first extract book titles from posts. I then had it compare two books at a time to see which review expressed a stronger positive sentiment. There are roughly 24.5 million such comparisons to do for an exhaustive set, but I already racked up a decent bill on gemini with 2 million comparisons so I stopped there. Thus the rankings are roughly accurate but not necessarily extremely precise. You shouldn't necessarily interpret book #5 as being better than book #6, but moreso books #1-10 being better than books #10-20.

Tyler Cowen's favorites from Marginal Revolution

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
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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
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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