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: Philosophy ×
Showing 585 books in Philosophy
E
BT: 2.05 668 comparisons
P
BT: 1.14 304 comparisons
E
BT: 0.24 343 comparisons
F
BT: 0.18 314 comparisons
T
BT: 0.10 3542 comparisons
N
BT: -0.31 345 comparisons
M
BT: -0.95 383 comparisons
P
BT: -1.87 374 comparisons
T
BT: -1.89 8246 comparisons
P
BT: -2.64 360 comparisons
G
BT: -4.14 175 comparisons