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-...

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

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.

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 ...

Defending Your PhD Dissertation is a survival guide for doctoral candidates who suspect their defense will be anything but friendly. Dr. John M. Cobin, who earned his PhD in public policy at George Mason University in 1996 and has spent decades consulting and reviewing graduate work in the United States and Chile, lays out exactly how to prepare for a committee that is skeptical, divided, or openly hostile. This is not a cheerful pep talk. It is a field manual for the worst-case room: anti...

Pro-Life Policy: A Perspective for Liberty and Human Rights. A work by Dr. John M. Cobin on liberty and human rights.

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.

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.

Bearing the Cross — BOOK THREE: Valparaíso (part 3) and Rancagua continues John M. Cobin's memoir trilogy. A gringo political prisoner exposes the injustices, indignities, and vexations of the Chilean criminal justice and prison system, in an account of faith, family, and perseverance.To learn more about the author and his other works: policyofliberty.com and AlertnessAI.com.

New Institutional Economics: A Primer on the Rules of the Game. A work by Dr. John M. Cobin on the rules that govern economic and political life.

Thinking of moving to Chile? Before you do, read the guide written by someone who lived it. In this fully revised Fourth Edition, Dr. John M. Cobin-economist, author, and long-time resident-offers a candid, cautionary look at life in Chile for foreigners: the bureaucracy, the culture, the cost of living, safety, healthcare, schooling, real estate, and the hard realities that glossy relocation pitches leave out. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience and richly illustrated, Life in Chil...