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
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R
BT: -0.00
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BT: -0.07
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BT: -0.22
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BT: -0.29
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BT: -0.30
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BT: -0.34
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D
BT: -0.42
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BT: -0.42
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J
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A
BT: -0.55
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BT: -0.55
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BT: -0.55
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O
BT: -0.56
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BT: -0.57
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BT: -0.59
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B
BT: -0.59
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BT: -0.60
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N
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C
BT: -0.68
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C
BT: -0.69
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BT: -0.69
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BT: -0.86
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BT: -0.98
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BT: -0.98
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BT: -1.04
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BT: -1.07
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BT: -1.09
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BT: -1.10
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BT: -1.15
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BT: -1.25
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BT: -1.34
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BT: -1.48
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BT: -1.58
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BT: -1.60
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BT: -1.61
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BT: -1.62
373 comparisons
P
BT: -1.69
376 comparisons
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BT: -1.73
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L
BT: -1.75
488 comparisons
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BT: -1.77
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BT: -1.82
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A
BT: -1.83
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C
BT: -1.88
363 comparisons
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BT: -1.92
648 comparisons
R
BT: -1.94
347 comparisons
G
BT: -2.01
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F
BT: -2.08
392 comparisons
M
BT: -2.18
358 comparisons
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BT: -2.19
360 comparisons
C
BT: -2.22
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L
BT: -2.24
341 comparisons
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BT: -2.37
309 comparisons
F
BT: -2.54
736 comparisons
H
BT: -2.58
341 comparisons
S
BT: -2.61
359 comparisons
F
BT: -2.65
313 comparisons
K
BT: -2.69
324 comparisons
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BT: -2.71
334 comparisons
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BT: -2.71
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B
BT: -2.91
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BT: -2.97
318 comparisons
U
BT: -3.04
335 comparisons
V
BT: -3.09
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L
BT: -3.13
366 comparisons
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BT: -3.15
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F
BT: -3.30
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BT: -3.32
284 comparisons
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BT: -3.34
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G
BT: -3.35
317 comparisons
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BT: -3.36
501 comparisons
D
BT: -3.39
303 comparisons
A
BT: -3.40
862 comparisons
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BT: -3.47
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BT: -3.52
332 comparisons
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BT: -3.59
323 comparisons
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BT: -3.60
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R
BT: -3.60
556 comparisons
D
BT: -3.76
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U
BT: -3.82
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BT: -3.90
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BT: -4.06
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O
BT: -4.10
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BT: -4.12
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BT: -4.43
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BT: -4.44
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I
BT: -4.72
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BT: -4.78
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BT: -6.34
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BT: -6.42
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BT: -6.56
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P
BT: -10.69
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