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 86 books in Essays
R
BT: -0.00
355 comparisons
T
BT: -0.30
346 comparisons
N
BT: -0.31
345 comparisons
A
BT: -0.32
361 comparisons
A
BT: -0.32
395 comparisons
L
BT: -0.51
375 comparisons
P
BT: -0.80
386 comparisons
W
BT: -0.90
356 comparisons
E
BT: -0.98
347 comparisons
A
BT: -1.26
353 comparisons
T
BT: -1.31
347 comparisons
Y
BT: -1.34
382 comparisons
S
BT: -1.49
398 comparisons
T
BT: -1.53
385 comparisons
E
BT: -1.55
390 comparisons
T
BT: -1.57
409 comparisons
T
BT: -1.59
380 comparisons
M
BT: -1.63
375 comparisons
E
BT: -1.89
377 comparisons
E
BT: -2.15
444 comparisons
T
BT: -2.28
324 comparisons
H
BT: -2.35
377 comparisons
K
BT: -2.36
377 comparisons
T
BT: -2.37
325 comparisons
C
BT: -2.40
370 comparisons
O
BT: -2.47
299 comparisons
F
BT: -2.54
736 comparisons
P
BT: -2.64
360 comparisons
C
BT: -2.65
339 comparisons
S
BT: -2.68
345 comparisons
A
BT: -2.81
391 comparisons
T
BT: -2.89
361 comparisons
A
BT: -2.91
294 comparisons
T
BT: -3.21
385 comparisons
U
BT: -3.25
303 comparisons
C
BT: -3.33
312 comparisons
P
BT: -3.33
348 comparisons
I
BT: -3.52
318 comparisons
V
BT: -3.74
299 comparisons
L
BT: -4.15
260 comparisons
D
BT: -4.34
191 comparisons
A
BT: -6.34
108 comparisons
S
BT: -6.76
109 comparisons
T
BT: -7.74
144 comparisons