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: Political History ×
Showing 282 books in Political History
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BT: 10.36
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T
BT: -0.01
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M
BT: -0.01
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BT: -0.02
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B
BT: -0.03
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P
BT: -0.10
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E
BT: -0.11
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BT: -0.13
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BT: -0.14
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A
BT: -0.16
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D
BT: -0.17
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F
BT: -0.19
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N
BT: -0.21
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E
BT: -0.23
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V
BT: -0.24
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I
BT: -0.27
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G
BT: -0.33
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BT: -0.35
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A
BT: -0.36
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BT: -0.45
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T
BT: -0.46
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M
BT: -0.46
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T
BT: -0.47
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F
BT: -0.51
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BT: -0.51
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L
BT: -0.52
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A
BT: -0.57
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I
BT: -0.62
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A
BT: -0.63
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M
BT: -0.67
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N
BT: -0.68
544 comparisons
H
BT: -0.68
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T
BT: -0.72
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E
BT: -0.73
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A
BT: -0.75
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BT: -0.79
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BT: -0.79
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BT: -0.80
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G
BT: -0.81
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BT: -0.81
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E
BT: -0.82
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H
BT: -0.83
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T
BT: -0.91
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R
BT: -0.92
350 comparisons
L
BT: -0.99
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T
BT: -1.02
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W
BT: -1.03
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T
BT: -1.08
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H
BT: -1.16
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BT: -1.18
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H
BT: -1.20
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BT: -1.21
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A
BT: -1.27
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P
BT: -1.27
414 comparisons
V
BT: -1.34
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R
BT: -1.37
378 comparisons
N
BT: -1.37
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T
BT: -1.42
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N
BT: -1.43
359 comparisons
T
BT: -1.44
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P
BT: -1.45
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BT: -1.48
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BT: -1.50
376 comparisons
N
BT: -1.54
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R
BT: -1.55
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I
BT: -1.68
388 comparisons
K
BT: -1.69
428 comparisons
D
BT: -1.72
403 comparisons
R
BT: -1.75
391 comparisons
T
BT: -1.77
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S
BT: -1.77
419 comparisons
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BT: -1.78
388 comparisons
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BT: -1.82
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BT: -1.84
378 comparisons
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BT: -1.85
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A
BT: -1.97
367 comparisons
T
BT: -2.05
368 comparisons
S
BT: -2.08
365 comparisons
A
BT: -2.16
729 comparisons
B
BT: -2.23
344 comparisons
Z
BT: -2.26
345 comparisons
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BT: -2.31
363 comparisons
T
BT: -2.33
351 comparisons
T
BT: -2.33
346 comparisons
F
BT: -2.37
335 comparisons
I
BT: -2.40
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BT: -2.54
372 comparisons
P
BT: -2.57
356 comparisons
B
BT: -2.58
323 comparisons
E
BT: -2.77
286 comparisons
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BT: -2.79
325 comparisons
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BT: -2.83
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BT: -2.83
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I
BT: -3.03
364 comparisons
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BT: -3.07
367 comparisons
M
BT: -3.09
329 comparisons
T
BT: -3.13
360 comparisons
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BT: -3.13
325 comparisons
E
BT: -3.15
331 comparisons
H
BT: -3.16
391 comparisons
F
BT: -3.19
348 comparisons
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BT: -3.19
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BT: -3.19
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A
BT: -3.27
375 comparisons
A
BT: -3.28
380 comparisons
D
BT: -3.32
326 comparisons
S
BT: -3.32
368 comparisons
F
BT: -3.33
360 comparisons
S
BT: -3.42
313 comparisons
T
BT: -3.43
346 comparisons
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BT: -3.43
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B
BT: -3.58
343 comparisons
S
BT: -3.66
372 comparisons
T
BT: -3.72
234 comparisons
W
BT: -3.79
236 comparisons
B
BT: -3.80
312 comparisons
W
BT: -3.87
270 comparisons
S
BT: -3.91
226 comparisons
T
BT: -4.02
254 comparisons
H
BT: -4.02
269 comparisons
S
BT: -4.08
240 comparisons
T
BT: -4.12
253 comparisons
I
BT: -4.14
190 comparisons
P
BT: -4.17
234 comparisons
F
BT: -4.21
173 comparisons
T
BT: -5.53
136 comparisons
F
BT: -5.98
104 comparisons
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BT: -6.86
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