Defending Your PhD Dissertation is a practical survival guide for doctoral candidates facing the high-stakes hostile reading of their dissertation defense. Dr. John M. Cobin walks readers through anticipating adversarial committee questions, structuring persuasive rebuttals, managing pressure in the room, and protecting years of research from being derailed by a single contentious exchange. Written for graduate students in any discipline, this guide covers pre-defense preparation, reading-...

Can human life and human liberty both be defended? In this fully revised fourth edition, Dr. John M. Cobin argues that they must be - and shows how. Starting from the personhood of the unborn child, he builds a pro-life argument grounded in the libertarian non-aggression principle and the Christian tradition of natural rights, reinforced by the economics of market failure. Written for a post-Roe world, it addresses the Dobbs decision (2022) and answers objections raised from within the lib...

Public Choice: A Primer offers a clear, accessible introduction to public choice theory for readers who want to understand politics through an economic lens. Dr. John M. Cobin explains how the tools of economic analysis-self-interest, incentives, rational actors-apply to voters, politicians, and bureaucrats alike, revealing why democratic government so often produces outcomes nobody wants. Drawing on the work of Buchanan, Tullock, and other public choice pioneers, this primer covers rent-s...

Bearing the Cross — BOOK ONE: Valparaíso (part 1). A Gringo Political Prisoner Exposes the Injustices, Indignities, and Vexations of the Chilean Criminal Justice and Prison System.

Bearing the Cross — Book Five: Casablanca (part 2) is the concluding volume in a five-book memoir in which Dr. John M. Cobin, a Baptist Christian and former political prisoner, exposes the injustices, indignities, and vexations of the Chilean criminal justice and prison system. Continuing directly from Book Four, this final volume follows the author's ordeal inside Chile's Casablanca facility, documenting due-process abuses, prison conditions, and the Christian faith that sustained him thr...

Bearing the Cross — BOOK TWO: Valparaíso (part 2). A Gringo Political Prisoner Exposes the Injustices, Indignities, and Vexations of the Chilean Criminal Justice and Prison System.

New Institutional Economics: A Primer for the Working Economist distills a field too often left to jargon-heavy academic journals into a clear, working toolkit for economists, policy analysts, and serious students of markets. Drawing on the foundational insights of Ronald Coase, Douglass North, and Oliver Williamson, John M. Cobin walks the reader through transaction costs, property rights, contracts, and the evolution of institutions -- the rules of the game that shape every market outcom...

Austrian Economics: A Primer for the Liberty-Minded Reader: Eight Concepts That Change How You See Money, Markets, and the State

For six years, Daniel Morales has not opened a door. Wrongly convicted, he entered a Chilean prison in the spring of 2019. Now the paperwork says he walks free: back across an ocean to the United States, and into a world that artificial intelligence has transformed while he was learning not to want things on his own schedule.Sentenced to the Future is a literary thriller of innocence, reinvention, and the machine age — the story of a man who must rebuild a life in a future ...

Sentenced to the Future: A Novel of Innocence, Reinvention, and the Machine Age is a work of fiction by John M. Cobin. Set against a near-future landscape reshaped by artificial intelligence, algorithmic compliance systems, and automated justice, the novel follows a protagonist confronting wrongful conviction, institutional indifference, and the search for renewal in a world where machines increasingly stand between the individual and the state.

Five years behind bars for defending his own life. The evidence proved his innocence on at least two charges — yet the system kept him caged. In Surviving Chilean Justice, Dr. John M. Cobin, economist and Baptist pastor, refuses to write a simple victim's memoir. Instead he applies public-choice economics to the prosecutors, judges, and officials who chose incentives over truth, exposing why justice systems persecute the innocent and how a man endures when the state turns against him. Equa...

John M. Cobin, a Reformed Baptist pastor and Austrian-school economist, examines what Scripture actually teaches about the origin, scope, and limits of civil government. A biblically grounded, economically literate case against the expansive modern state, written for the thoughtful Christian reader.