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.
Showing 67 books in Russian History
M
BT: -0.01
316 comparisons
L
BT: -0.06
920 comparisons
T
BT: -0.14
298 comparisons
V
BT: -0.24
671 comparisons
T
BT: -0.33
361 comparisons
S
BT: -0.34
351 comparisons
T
BT: -0.37
471 comparisons
E
BT: -0.60
377 comparisons
W
BT: -0.63
363 comparisons
T
BT: -0.64
387 comparisons
W
BT: -0.78
1399 comparisons
R
BT: -0.92
350 comparisons
4
BT: -0.92
365 comparisons
P
BT: -0.92
371 comparisons
W
BT: -0.97
445 comparisons
L
BT: -0.99
454 comparisons
T
BT: -1.17
675 comparisons
I
BT: -1.20
487 comparisons
V
BT: -1.23
405 comparisons
P
BT: -1.27
414 comparisons
A
BT: -1.37
330 comparisons
V
BT: -1.47
381 comparisons
R
BT: -1.75
391 comparisons
S
BT: -1.77
419 comparisons
H
BT: -1.92
648 comparisons
S
BT: -2.08
365 comparisons
S
BT: -2.40
372 comparisons
A
BT: -2.51
345 comparisons
B
BT: -2.58
323 comparisons
M
BT: -3.61
347 comparisons
S
BT: -3.91
226 comparisons
