Book Rankings i I 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: Intellectual History ×
Showing 198 books in Intellectual History
I
BT: 1.54
2035 comparisons
M
BT: 0.07
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C
BT: -0.02
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P
BT: -0.07
368 comparisons
M
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E
BT: -0.09
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BT: -0.10
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A
BT: -0.15
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E
BT: -0.15
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BT: -0.20
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M
BT: -0.22
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T
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454 comparisons
A
BT: -0.24
680 comparisons
T
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V
BT: -0.27
325 comparisons
B
BT: -0.28
578 comparisons
T
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310 comparisons
T
BT: -0.33
325 comparisons
E
BT: -0.35
347 comparisons
T
BT: -0.40
347 comparisons
D
BT: -0.44
377 comparisons
T
BT: -0.53
328 comparisons
D
BT: -0.56
357 comparisons
T
BT: -0.65
369 comparisons
T
BT: -0.66
343 comparisons
M
BT: -0.67
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I
BT: -0.69
377 comparisons
A
BT: -0.72
505 comparisons
T
BT: -0.79
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BT: -0.81
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T
BT: -0.89
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O
BT: -0.89
360 comparisons
A
BT: -0.90
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BT: -0.91
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385 comparisons
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BT: -0.97
445 comparisons
H
BT: -0.99
473 comparisons
D
BT: -1.01
665 comparisons
V
BT: -1.02
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M
BT: -1.09
497 comparisons
P
BT: -1.14
387 comparisons
D
BT: -1.15
379 comparisons
T
BT: -1.17
675 comparisons
V
BT: -1.23
405 comparisons
O
BT: -1.23
381 comparisons
G
BT: -1.24
2523 comparisons
M
BT: -1.24
443 comparisons
T
BT: -1.28
362 comparisons
V
BT: -1.34
386 comparisons
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BT: -1.38
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BT: -1.42
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A
BT: -1.43
417 comparisons
K
BT: -1.48
398 comparisons
C
BT: -1.51
402 comparisons
N
BT: -1.54
401 comparisons
W
BT: -1.56
368 comparisons
T
BT: -1.62
378 comparisons
T
BT: -1.63
407 comparisons
T
BT: -1.65
381 comparisons
M
BT: -1.70
417 comparisons
T
BT: -1.70
711 comparisons
P
BT: -1.74
351 comparisons
A
BT: -1.86
366 comparisons
F
BT: -1.90
388 comparisons
A
BT: -2.02
369 comparisons
P
BT: -2.04
638 comparisons
P
BT: -2.11
360 comparisons
T
BT: -2.17
326 comparisons
E
BT: -2.24
367 comparisons
C
BT: -2.24
383 comparisons
W
BT: -2.25
367 comparisons
T
BT: -2.29
354 comparisons
T
BT: -2.50
377 comparisons
T
BT: -2.51
717 comparisons
B
BT: -2.57
592 comparisons
P
BT: -2.57
356 comparisons
T
BT: -2.61
309 comparisons
M
BT: -2.71
356 comparisons
T
BT: -2.77
332 comparisons
L
BT: -2.84
368 comparisons
T
BT: -2.85
374 comparisons
T
BT: -2.86
333 comparisons
H
BT: -2.91
360 comparisons
T
BT: -3.04
338 comparisons
T
BT: -3.18
362 comparisons
T
BT: -3.23
353 comparisons
T
BT: -3.36
501 comparisons
T
BT: -3.36
373 comparisons
C
BT: -3.37
762 comparisons
A
BT: -3.41
346 comparisons
T
BT: -3.44
294 comparisons
T
BT: -3.46
343 comparisons
T
BT: -3.50
354 comparisons
H
BT: -3.54
332 comparisons
B
BT: -3.58
343 comparisons
C
BT: -3.59
317 comparisons
L
BT: -3.63
318 comparisons
I
BT: -3.66
276 comparisons
L
BT: -3.72
364 comparisons
A
BT: -3.73
268 comparisons
E
BT: -3.74
294 comparisons
E
BT: -3.78
349 comparisons
E
BT: -3.80
273 comparisons
J
BT: -3.90
260 comparisons
W
BT: -3.90
316 comparisons
A
BT: -3.95
269 comparisons
E
BT: -4.01
271 comparisons
T
BT: -4.06
201 comparisons
T
BT: -4.06
238 comparisons
T
BT: -4.12
253 comparisons
T
BT: -4.15
176 comparisons
H
BT: -5.29
113 comparisons
S
BT: -5.65
101 comparisons
S
BT: -5.88
133 comparisons
A
BT: -6.54
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