Public Choice: A Primer for the Politically Sober. A concise introduction to public choice theory.

Can artificial intelligence make you a better investor without making you dependent on it? In AI-Augmented Personal Finance, Dr. John M. Cobin shows liberty-minded readers how to use AI tools to sharpen personal financial decisions while keeping sound judgment, sound money principles, and personal responsibility firmly in the driver's seat. Written for the curious reader rather than the Wall Street insider, Cobin covers budgeting, investing, retirement planning, debt management, and wealth...

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...

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 ...

Bearing the Cross — BOOK FOUR: Casablanca (part 1) 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.

A concise primer introducing the core themes of free-market economics and policy — property rights, prices, incentives, and the unintended consequences of intervention — written by public policy economist John M. Cobin for readers new to the Austrian school's approach to political economy.

Currencies erode. Bureaucracies watch. Markets punish the unprepared. Where does a liberty-minded investor turn? In this field guide, public policy economist and Baptist pastor Dr. John M. Cobin pairs sound-money fundamentals—gold and disciplined cryptocurrency—with the practical power of AI tools that let ordinary people research, model, and decide like professionals. Forged by a life lived across the United States and Chile, Cobin writes for the self-reliant: those who want hard-headed s...

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.

Wrongly convicted. Five years stolen. The truth refused to stay silent. In this second volume of Bearing the Cross, Dr. John M. Cobin carries readers back inside Valparaíso, where each day meant extortion, hunger, and the threat of violence. Imprisoned over an act of self-defense, with forensics affirming his innocence, he chronicles persecution endured and faith that would not break. A Baptist pastor, scholar, and father of seven, Cobin writes with hard-won honesty, never for pity, only f...

How should Christians view the state and its public policies? Are believers obligated to obey those with political power without qualification because of Romans 13? In this substantial work of practical theology, public policy economist John M. Cobin, Ph.D. argues that Romans 13:1-7 and 1 Peter 2:13-14 must be read in their historical context, written under Nero's Rome, and develops the liberty of conscience perspective as a biblically coherent alternative to reflexive statism.Part...

A rigorous, accessible study of Christian political theology and its bearing on public policy -- covering natural law, church-state relations, and the biblical case for limited government. From Dr. John M. Cobin, public policy economist and author of twenty books.

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 teaching, 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 r...