Reddit Books

The most-mentioned books on r/AskEconomics

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top. 

It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.

Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users. 

We've processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on Reddit. 

Table of Contents

 

The most-mentioned books on r/AskEconomics

Why Nations Fail12 users
Principles of Economics8 users
Microeconomic Theory7 users
Modern Macroeconomics7 users
Economics Rules5 users
Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets4 users
Mathematics for Economists4 users
Principles of Macroeconomics4 users
The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets3 users
The Wages of Destruction3 users
Lords of Finance3 users
Game Theory3 users
Recursive Macroeconomic Theory3 users
Advanced Microeconomic Theory3 users
Microeconomic Theory3 users
The Courage to Act3 users
Naked Economics3 users
Capital in the Twenty First Century3 users
The Rise and Fall of American Growth3 users
This Time Is Different3 users
Macroeconomics3 users
The Armchair Economist3 users

Our methodology

Book mentions are found by checking every reddit comment for links to Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, and O'Rielly Media. Non-link mentions are too tricky to parse in an unbiased way: books with short, simple titles like The Road get massively under- or over-counted.

When a user mentions the same book multiple times in the same subreddit, we only count the top-voted comment. This curbs users shilling a particular book, and gives a more representative feel for an entire subreddit.

 

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Junaid Khan

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