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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BT: 2.89
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T
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E
BT: -0.06
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O
BT: -0.09
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BT: -0.11
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L
BT: -0.12
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BT: -0.25
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BT: -0.34
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BT: -0.41
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G
BT: -0.41
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E
BT: -0.42
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A
BT: -0.42
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BT: -0.43
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B
BT: -0.44
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D
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BT: -0.46
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B
BT: -0.46
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J
BT: -0.48
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E
BT: -0.51
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T
BT: -0.53
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P
BT: -0.55
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I
BT: -0.59
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BT: -0.59
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BT: -0.64
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BT: -0.66
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E
BT: -0.66
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A
BT: -0.67
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BT: -0.69
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J
BT: -0.70
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BT: -0.76
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C
BT: -0.79
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N
BT: -0.81
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W
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C
BT: -0.85
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E
BT: -0.95
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L
BT: -0.96
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BT: -0.98
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F
BT: -1.00
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BT: -1.01
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BT: -1.04
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BT: -1.05
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BT: -1.08
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B
BT: -1.12
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R
BT: -1.15
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B
BT: -1.18
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D
BT: -1.26
388 comparisons
o
BT: -1.28
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L
BT: -1.30
384 comparisons
F
BT: -1.30
408 comparisons
N
BT: -1.31
391 comparisons
C
BT: -1.33
696 comparisons
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BT: -1.34
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E
BT: -1.39
360 comparisons
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BT: -1.40
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BT: -1.41
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N
BT: -1.42
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BT: -1.44
374 comparisons
E
BT: -1.45
652 comparisons
H
BT: -1.49
393 comparisons
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BT: -1.51
358 comparisons
U
BT: -1.53
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BT: -1.55
397 comparisons
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BT: -1.58
368 comparisons
G
BT: -1.59
385 comparisons
H
BT: -1.59
394 comparisons
P
BT: -1.61
411 comparisons
P
BT: -1.63
391 comparisons
N
BT: -1.64
364 comparisons
T
BT: -1.66
361 comparisons
O
BT: -1.71
358 comparisons
T
BT: -1.71
382 comparisons
G
BT: -1.72
358 comparisons
G
BT: -1.82
385 comparisons
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397 comparisons
C
BT: -1.83
390 comparisons
B
BT: -1.87
402 comparisons
A
BT: -1.90
309 comparisons
A
BT: -1.91
755 comparisons
R
BT: -1.94
370 comparisons
N
BT: -1.98
385 comparisons
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BT: -2.00
321 comparisons
P
BT: -2.00
342 comparisons
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BT: -2.01
385 comparisons
W
BT: -2.14
353 comparisons
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BT: -2.18
342 comparisons
W
BT: -2.21
349 comparisons
O
BT: -2.22
331 comparisons
M
BT: -2.22
375 comparisons
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BT: -2.26
367 comparisons
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BT: -2.26
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BT: -2.27
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G
BT: -2.29
378 comparisons
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BT: -2.30
350 comparisons
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BT: -2.45
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F
BT: -2.45
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A
BT: -2.47
328 comparisons
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BT: -2.65
342 comparisons
G
BT: -2.66
362 comparisons
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BT: -2.66
303 comparisons
A
BT: -2.71
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A
BT: -2.76
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A
BT: -2.79
320 comparisons
G
BT: -2.81
341 comparisons
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317 comparisons
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BT: -2.89
361 comparisons
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BT: -3.00
295 comparisons
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BT: -3.02
354 comparisons
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BT: -3.04
337 comparisons
D
BT: -3.06
392 comparisons
G
BT: -3.06
355 comparisons
V
BT: -3.10
294 comparisons
S
BT: -3.14
345 comparisons
G
BT: -3.17
290 comparisons
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BT: -3.18
350 comparisons
T
BT: -3.19
339 comparisons
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BT: -3.25
349 comparisons
A
BT: -3.26
272 comparisons
W
BT: -3.28
323 comparisons
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BT: -3.30
361 comparisons
C
BT: -3.35
352 comparisons
B
BT: -3.38
343 comparisons
O
BT: -3.40
346 comparisons
S
BT: -3.42
336 comparisons
H
BT: -3.44
383 comparisons
D
BT: -3.47
475 comparisons
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BT: -3.49
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BT: -3.53
341 comparisons
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BT: -3.54
314 comparisons
R
BT: -3.54
346 comparisons
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BT: -3.57
318 comparisons
O
BT: -3.58
322 comparisons
U
BT: -3.58
324 comparisons
F
BT: -3.63
283 comparisons
B
BT: -3.63
329 comparisons
U
BT: -3.66
356 comparisons
H
BT: -3.74
293 comparisons
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BT: -3.76
343 comparisons
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BT: -3.77
294 comparisons
F
BT: -3.78
273 comparisons
B
BT: -3.79
319 comparisons
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BT: -3.80
327 comparisons
P
BT: -3.82
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BT: -3.87
261 comparisons
E
BT: -3.90
266 comparisons
B
BT: -3.91
290 comparisons
O
BT: -3.95
256 comparisons
R
BT: -3.98
225 comparisons
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BT: -3.99
272 comparisons
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BT: -4.02
275 comparisons
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BT: -4.05
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BT: -4.11
271 comparisons
P
BT: -4.15
196 comparisons
T
BT: -4.22
188 comparisons
S
BT: -4.28
168 comparisons
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BT: -4.45
176 comparisons
D
BT: -4.99
126 comparisons
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BT: -5.20
118 comparisons
C
BT: -5.39
108 comparisons
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