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...

Suffering Unjustly is Dr. John M. Cobin's firsthand account of imprisonment, wrecked family life, and the loss of property and wealth endured by a Christian family navigating a modern democratic legal system that failed to deliver justice. After relocating to Chile in pursuit of a freer, more principled life, Cobin found himself entangled in a legal ordeal that tested his faith, his marriage, and his resolve. Written as a companion volume to the Bearing the Cross series and Behind the Wall...

Defending a dissertation against a hostile reading is not the same skill as writing one. John M. Cobin, Ph.D., walks through what actually happens in the room across twenty chapters: preparing the presentation, anticipating objections, answering when an examiner goes looking for the weak point, and what defending well means for the rest of an academic career. A practical guide, written from experience, for the candidate who wants to reach defense day without surprises.Audiobook with synthe...

Book Three of Bearing the Cross: Valparaíso part 3 and Rancagua. Dr. John M. Cobin continues the prison record from inside the Chilean system. AI-narrated using a voice-clone of the author's own voice (Chatterbox-TTS) — a synthesized recording, not a live human narration.

Bearing the Cross - Book One: Valparaíso (part 1) opens Dr. John M. Cobin's five-volume memoir of his wrongful conviction and the five years he spent in the Chilean prison system. In this first volume, the author recounts his arrest, trial, and the early months of incarceration in Valparaíso, documenting the conditions of confinement and the shock of entering an unjust justice system. Written with the same unflinching, first-person honesty that defines the entire series, this book document...

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.

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...

Suffering Unjustly: prison, family destruction, and property confiscation that Christians face in modern democratic societies. AI-narrated using a voice-clone of the author's own voice (Chatterbox-TTS technology) — a synthesized recording, not a live human narration.

When Danny walks out of prison into a world remade by artificial intelligence, he expects freedom. What he findsis a quieter kind of cage: a son who loves a machine named Suri more than the father who was gone, a state thatnever apologizes, and a culture that has outsourced judgment, memory, and mercy to systems that never sleep.Sentenced to the Future: A Novel of Innocence, Reinvention, and the Machine Age follows a wrongfully convicted manthrough reinvention,...

Bible and Government — Scripture and the limits of civil power. AI-narrated using a voice-clone of the author's own voice (Chatterbox-TTS) — a synthesized recording, not a live human narration.

Bearing the Cross - Book Two: Valparaíso (part 2) continues Dr. John M. Cobin's five-volume memoir of his wrongful conviction and the five years he spent in the Chilean prison system. In this second volume, the author recounts the ongoing imprisonment in Valparaíso, documenting daily life, relationships with fellow inmates, and the continuing struggle for justice within an unjust system. Written with the same unflinching, first-person honesty that defines the entire series, this book docum...