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.

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Showing 94 books in Law
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1. To the Edge: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis
BT: 7.07 118 comparisons
american history economics financial history history +3
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2. Limited Liability: A Legal and Economic Analysis
BT: 6.06 113 comparisons
business corporate law economics law +1
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3. The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London
BT: 5.68 121 comparisons
american history economics law legal history +3
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4. A New Deal for China’s Workers?
BT: 5.40 136 comparisons
china chinese studies economics labor economics +4
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5. Theft! A History of Music
BT: 3.61 195 comparisons
graphic novel history intellectual property law law +2
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6. The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
BT: 3.15 252 comparisons
economics intellectual property law property rights +1
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7. The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
BT: 3.14 224 comparisons
american history criminal justice history law +1
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8. Unshackled: A practical guide for highly-skilled immigrants to thrive in the United States
BT: 2.83 232 comparisons
guidebook immigration law self-help +1
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9. Solomon’s Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations
BT: 2.80 250 comparisons
comparative law development economics economics international development +3
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10. How Judges Think
BT: 2.76 240 comparisons
jurisprudence law legal theory political science
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11. Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
BT: 2.64 252 comparisons
american politics law political philosophy politics +2
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12. Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary
BT: 2.34 243 comparisons
law legal studies political science sociology
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13. American Property
BT: 2.21 283 comparisons
american history history law legal history +1
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14. We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush
BT: 1.97 266 comparisons
american history economic history history law +3
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15. Reflections on Judging
BT: 1.95 278 comparisons
jurisprudence law legal theory memoir +1
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16. The Licensing Racket
BT: 1.85 278 comparisons
economics law political economy public policy +1
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17. Shylock on Trial: The Appellate Briefs
BT: 1.75 266 comparisons
law law and literature legal studies literary criticism +1
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18. Rescuing the Past: The Cultural Heritage Crusade
BT: 1.66 299 comparisons
art market cultural heritage studies economics history +1
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19. Corporate Governance After the Financial Crisis
BT: 1.23 301 comparisons
business corporate governance corporate law economics +2
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20. Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
BT: 1.03 596 comparisons
blockchain economics law political science +1
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21. Bloodsport: When Ruthless Dealmakers, Shrewd Ideologues, and Brawling Lawyers Toppled the Corporate Establishment
BT: 0.97 262 comparisons
american history business business history finance +2
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22. The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System
BT: 0.82 440 comparisons
american law american politics law non-fiction +1
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23. The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court
BT: 0.73 296 comparisons
american history environmental politics history law +2
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24. The Origins of Law and Economics: Essays by the Founding Fathers
BT: 0.71 329 comparisons
economic history economics essays history +2
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25. Google, Yelp, LIBOR, and the Control of Information
BT: 0.66 311 comparisons
business economics information technology law +1
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26. New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis
BT: 0.64 324 comparisons
economics law philosophy public policy
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27. Law & Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State
BT: 0.57 342 comparisons
administrative law constitutional law law political science +2
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28. Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
BT: 0.55 343 comparisons
argentina contemporary history economics finance +6
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29. The Failure of Judges and the Rise of Regulators
BT: 0.55 334 comparisons
economics law law and economics political science +2
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30. Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk About Art as Intellectual Property
BT: 0.54 325 comparisons
art copyright law intellectual property law law +1
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31. The Federal Prison Guidebook
BT: 0.53 292 comparisons
criminal law law legal guide legal self-help +1
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32. Is Administrative Law Unlawful?
BT: 0.50 330 comparisons
administrative law american politics constitutional law law +2
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33. The Presidents and the Constitution
BT: 0.45 510 comparisons
american history american politics constitutional law history +4
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34. Bottleneckers: Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit
BT: 0.44 319 comparisons
economics law political economy politics +2
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35. Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
BT: 0.42 615 comparisons
criminal justice economics law non-fiction +2
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36. Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy & the Future of Marriage
BT: 0.37 315 comparisons
ethics history law philosophy +3
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37. A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist
BT: 0.33 349 comparisons
american politics biography law legal theory +2
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38. Injustice For All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the US Criminal Justice System
BT: 0.24 372 comparisons
american politics criminal justice economics law +2
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39. The Jury in America: Triumph and Decline
BT: 0.11 320 comparisons
american history history law political science
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40. The Microsoft Antitrust Cases
BT: 0.09 343 comparisons
antitrust law business competition policy economics +3
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41. Judge and Jury: Amercian Tort Law on Trial
BT: -0.06 602 comparisons
american law economics law law and economics +1
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42. Stateless Commerce: The Diamond Network and the Persistence of Relational Exchange
BT: -0.08 326 comparisons
business economics law political economy +1
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43. Law and Macroeconomics: Legal Remedies for Recessions
BT: -0.12 370 comparisons
economics law macroeconomics public policy
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44. The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation
BT: -0.17 616 comparisons
economics innovation intellectual property law
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45. Eminent Domain: A Comparative Perspective
BT: -0.42 317 comparisons
comparative studies law political science property law +1
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46. Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison
BT: -0.44 367 comparisons
criminal justice law law and economics public policy
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47. The Cost-Benefit Revolution
BT: -0.66 454 comparisons
economics law political science public policy
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48. The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement
BT: -0.71 361 comparisons
american history history law political science +1
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49. Rehabilitating Lochner
BT: -1.08 407 comparisons
american history law legal history political science +1
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50. The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and the Foundations of Contract Law
BT: -1.09 356 comparisons
economics ethics law legal philosophy +2
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51. Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
BT: -1.18 385 comparisons
economics ethics law public policy +1
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52. Njal’s Saga
BT: -1.20 979 comparisons
epic fiction history law +4
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53. Shakespeare and the Law
BT: -1.24 343 comparisons
interdisciplinary studies law legal studies literary criticism +2
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54. First Thing We Do, Let’s Deregulate All the Lawyers
BT: -1.30 408 comparisons
american economics economics labor economics law +2
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55. The Federal Judiciary: Strengths and Weaknesses
BT: -1.37 397 comparisons
american law judicial system law political science +1
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56. Nudge
BT: -1.42 1101 comparisons
behavioral economics economics law political philosophy +2
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57. Richard Posner
BT: -1.53 641 comparisons
biography law legal studies
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58. Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
BT: -1.84 367 comparisons
american history history law social history
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59. The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights
BT: -1.86 389 comparisons
american history constitutional law history law +2
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60. Guantanamo Diary
BT: -2.01 1444 comparisons
contemporary history human rights law memoir +2
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61. The Shape of the River
BT: -2.18 342 comparisons
american politics education law politics +2
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62. Worst-Case Scenarios
BT: -2.21 349 comparisons
law philosophy political science public policy
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63. Economics and the Law
BT: -2.28 332 comparisons
economics law law and economics legal studies
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64. Rethinking Merger Analyses
BT: -2.51 376 comparisons
antitrust law business corporate finance economics +2
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65. The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals
BT: -2.53 397 comparisons
american history american politics law legal history +1
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66. Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
BT: -2.60 367 comparisons
art cultural studies law politics +1
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67. Three Felonies a Day
BT: -2.76 307 comparisons
american law law legal criticism politics
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68. Lawyer Poets and that World Which We Call Law
BT: -2.86 317 comparisons
law law and literature legal studies literary criticism +1
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69. Constitutional Chaff
BT: -2.87 293 comparisons
american history american politics constitutional law history +3
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70. I, Robot
BT: -3.04 2636 comparisons
ethics fiction law literature +1
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71. Amazon Law, vol. 1
BT: -3.04 315 comparisons
business business law e-commerce law law +2
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72. Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts
BT: -3.07 352 comparisons
economics finance financial history law +2
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73. The Law Code of Manu
BT: -3.10 338 comparisons
ancient history history indian history law +3
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74. Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State
BT: -3.10 294 comparisons
administrative law behavioral economics economics ethics +5
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75. Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law
BT: -3.15 345 comparisons
american politics constitutional law current events law +2
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76. In the Penal Colony
BT: -3.22 318 comparisons
fiction law literary fiction philosophical fiction
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77. Law Lit
BT: -3.25 318 comparisons
law legal fiction literary fiction
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78. The Federalist Papers
BT: -3.28 603 comparisons
american history history law political philosophy +2
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79. New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State
BT: -3.35 356 comparisons
american history history law politics
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80. The Crime of Sheila McGough
BT: -3.39 920 comparisons
journalism law legal non-fiction non-fiction +1
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81. A Matter of Principle
BT: -3.40 862 comparisons
law legal memoir memoir
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82. A Wilderness of Error
BT: -3.46 272 comparisons
investigative journalism law legal studies non-fiction +1
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83. In the Belly of the Beast
BT: -3.47 2456 comparisons
law memoir non-fiction prison literature +1
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84. The Pursuit of Justice
BT: -3.48 255 comparisons
economics judicial politics law law and economics +2
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85. The Accountability State: US Federal Inspectors General and the Pursuit of Democratic Integrity
BT: -3.55 322 comparisons
american politics government law political science +2
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86. Running the Books
BT: -3.60 556 comparisons
law memoir non-fiction prison literature
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87. United States v. Apple: Competition in America
BT: -3.66 356 comparisons
american law antitrust law business economics +4
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88. Conviction Machine: Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
BT: -3.69 329 comparisons
law legal thriller non-fiction politics +1
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89. Trade, Competition and Domestic Regulatory Policy: Trade Liberalisation, Competitive Markets and Property Rights Protection
BT: -3.80 276 comparisons
competition policy economics international trade law +2
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90. The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth
BT: -3.86 302 comparisons
economics law law and economics property law +2
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91. The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions
BT: -3.90 307 comparisons
bureaucracy law legal history public administration
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92. The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State
BT: -4.06 274 comparisons
administrative law american law government history +2
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93. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
BT: -4.17 230 comparisons
american law american politics business corporate crime +3
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94. The Gridlock Economy
BT: -4.36 125 comparisons
economics intellectual property law public policy
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