New Institutional Economics: A Primer offers a clear, accessible introduction to the new institutional economics tradition, the study of how property rights, transaction costs, contracts, and organizations shape economic outcomes. Written by Dr. John M. Cobin, this primer explains how institutions, both formal rules and informal norms, reduce uncertainty and enable exchange, and why well-defined property rights and low transaction costs are essential to prosperity. Readers will learn core ...

Public Choice: A Primer offers a clear, accessible introduction to public choice theory, the economic study of political decision-making. Written by Dr. John M. Cobin, this primer explains how self-interest, incentives, and institutional rules shape the behavior of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats, and why government action often fails to produce the public-spirited outcomes its proponents promise. Readers will learn core public choice concepts such as rent-seeking, regulatory capture,...

Austrian Economics: A Primer for the Liberty-Minded Reader offers a clear, accessible introduction to the Austrian school of economic thought, from subjective value and spontaneous order to the business cycle and the case for sound money. Written by Dr. John M. Cobin, this primer distills complex ideas into a practical guide for readers who want to understand markets, liberty, and the economic case for limited government. Ideal for students, general readers, and anyone new to Austrian econ...

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...

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.

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.

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...

Free market economics has advanced dramatically over the past thirty years, driven by the maturing of public choice theory, a resurgence of Austrian economics, and new work in law and economics and regulatory studies. This book introduces and summarizes the most important of those advances for students, academics, policy analysts, and serious readers who want a broad understanding of free market ideas.In fifteen chapters, Dr. John M. Cobin surveys ideas and interest groups in publi...

When Dr. John M. Cobin defended himself in an act later confirmed by physical and forensic evidence, he could not have imagined that the Chilean justice system would imprison him for more than five years. In Surviving Chilean Justice, the economist and Baptist pastor turns the analytical tools of public choice on his own ordeal, examining how prosecutors, judges, police, and bureaucrats respond to incentives rather than truth. The result is a rare book: at once a harrowing first-person acc...

In AI-Augmented Personal Finance, Dr. John M. Cobin brings the rigor of a public-policy economist and the conviction of a sovereign-minded individual to the most practical question liberty-lovers face: how do you protect and grow wealth in an age of currency debasement, surveillance, and political risk? Drawing on a PhD in public policy and decades advising clients across the United States and Chile, Cobin lays out a clear field guide to building resilient personal finances using gold, sou...

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...

Before the prison, there was a life. Book One of Bearing the Cross begins with the whole of it: an American boy of Molokan and Italian immigrant stock, a conversion that redirected everything, doctoral study in economics, a preaching ministry, a first marriage that ended in a custody war and a sabotaged congressional campaign, then a second beginning in Chile — a professorship, a marriage to Pamela, a house going up in Reñaca. On 10 November 2019 John M. Cobin defended his own life, and lo...