Peter Huber

New medicines in the pipeline can extend lives, save money, and even help prevent disease before symptoms appear ? if we don’t discourage their innovators and investors by trying to lower drug prices artificially. Unlocking Precision Medicine explores the environment necessary for creation of these health care game-changers, and explains how the marketplace can effectively make them more affordable to all without killing the golden goose.

Mark Zuckerberg's 'A Year of Books' Selection George Orwell's bleak visions of the future, one in which citizens are monitored through telescreens by an insidious Big Brother, has haunted our imagination long after the publication of 1984. Orwell's dystopian image of the telescreen as a repressive instrument of state power has profoundly affected our view of technology, posing a stark confrontational question: Who will be master, human or machine? Experience has shown, however, that Orwell's vision of the future was profoundly and significantly wrong: The conjunction of the new communications technologies has not produced a master-slave relation between person and computer, but rather exciting possibilities for partnership. In an extraordinary demonstration of the emerging supermedium's potential to engender new forms of creativity, Huber's book boldly reimagines 1984 from the computer's point of view. After first scanning all of Orwell's writings into his personal computer, Huber used the machine to rewrite the book completely, for the most part using Orwell's own language. Alternating fiction and non-fiction chapters, Huber advances Orwell's plot to a surprising new conclusion while seamlessly interpolating his own explanations and arguments. The result is a fascinating utopian work which envisions a world at our fingertips of ever-increasing information, equal opportunity, and freedom of choice.

Das vorliegende Buch ist als der auf den ersten Blick durchaus ungew hnlich erscheinende Versuch einer Ann herung an den amtierenden r mischen Bischof aus nichtkatholischer Perspektive zu verstehen. Ein Hauptanliegen des Autors - er selbst ist Geistlicher der Orthodoxen Kirche - ist es dabei, der Bedeutung des Franziskus von Rom nachzusp ren, die dieser sowohl f r die eigene Kirche als in einem besonderen Ausma gerade auch f r alle jene besitzt, die sich jenseits der Grenzen dieser Glaubensgemeinschaft befinden. Jorge Mario Bergoglio ist fraglos eine beeindruckende Pers nlichkeit; gerade auch dieser Tatsache versucht das Buch bei aller grunds tzlichen Distanz gegen ber der Institution des Papsttums Rechnung zu tragen. Das in den Text eingearbeitete Quellenmaterial, das vor allem den Argentinier auf dem r mischen Bischofsstuhl zu Wort kommen l sst, soll seinen Beitrag dazu leisten, Mensch und Werk in entsprechend-authentischer Weise darzustellen.

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Never before have two revolutions with so much potential to save and prolong human life occurred simultaneously. The converging, synergistic power of the biochemical and digital revolutions now allows us to read every letter of life's code, create precisely targeted drugs to control it, and tailor their use to individual patients. Cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's and countless other killers can be vanquished,if we make full use of the tools of modern drug design and allow doctors the use of modern data gathering and analytical tools when prescribing drugs to their patients.But Washington stands in the way, clinging to outdated drug-approval protocols developed decades ago during medicine's long battle with the infectious epidemics of the past. Peter Huber, an expert in science, technology, and public policy, demonstrates why Washington's one-size-fits-all drug policies can't deal with diseases rooted in the complex molecular diversity of human bodies. Washington is ill-equipped to handle the torrents of data that now propel the advance of molecular medicine and is reluctant to embrace the statistical methods of the digital age that can. Obsolete economic policies, often rationalized as cost-saving measures, stifle innovation and suppress investment in the medicine that can provide the best cures at the lowest cost.In the 1980s, an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence, until the FDA loosened its throttling grip and began streamlining and accelerating approval of life-saving drugs. The Cure in the Code shows patients, doctors, investors, and policy makers what we must now do to capture the full life-saving and cost-saving potential of the revolution in molecular medicine. America has to choose. At stake for America is the power to lead the world in mastering the most free, fecund, competitive, dynamic, and intelligent natural resource on the planet,the molecular code that spawns human life and controls our health.

The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about these subjects. But according to Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills, the things we think we know are mostly myths. A better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues. In The Bottomless Well , Huber and Mills show why energy is not scarce, why the price of energy doesn't matter very much, and why "waste" of energy is both necessary and desirable. Across the board, energy isn't the problem energy is the solution.

Peter Huber durchdenkt ein altbekanntes, aber bisher nicht befriedigend gelöstes Problem des bürgerlichen Rechts vor dem Hintergrund moderner Reform- und Vereinheitlichungsbestrebungen neu: die Frage, ob der Käufer einer mangelhaften Sache neben den Gewährleistungsansprüchen auch auf die Irrtumsanfechtung zurückgreifen darf. Im deutschen Recht nimmt man bisher ganz überwiegend an, daß dem Käufer nur die Sachmängelansprüche zur Verfügung stehen. In ausländischen Rechtsordnungen wird diese Frage dagegen anders behandelt. Bemerkenswert ist, daß weder im deutschen noch im ausländischen Recht Einigkeit über die theoretischen Grundlagen der Ausschlußwirkung erzielt wurde.Aktualität gewinnt die Frage dadurch, daß das Vertragsrecht sowohl international als auch national vor einem Wandel steht. Auf internationaler Ebene gibt es verschiedene Ansätze zur Vereinheitlichung des Vertragsrechts, z. B. im UN-Kaufrecht, in den UNIDROIT-Principles of International Commercial Contracts, in den Principles of European Contract Law und in der EG-Richtlinie über den Verbrauchsgüterkauf. In Deutschland ist die Diskussion über die große Schuldrechtsreform in vollem Gang.Peter Huber arbeitet die Grundlagen des Konkurrenzverhältnisses beider Rechtsinstitute heraus und wendet sie anschließend auf die deutsche lex lata und die neuen Regelwerke, einschließlich des Kommissionsentwurfs zur Schuldrechtsreform, an. Er kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daß das entscheidende Kriterium zur Beantwortung der Konkurrenzfrage den neuen Regelwerken entnommen werden kann.

This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism does not conserve forests, oceans, lakes, and streams - it hastens their destruction. For all its scientific pretension, Soft Green is not green at all. Its effects are the opposites of green.This book lays out the alternative: a return to Yellowstone and the National Forests, the original environmentalism of Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation movement. Chapter by chapter, Hard Green takes on the big issues of environmental discourse from scarcity and pollution to efficiency and waste disposal. This is the Hard Green manifesto: Rediscover T.R. Reaffirm the conservationist ethic. Expose the Soft Green fallacy. Reverse the Soft Green agenda. Save the environment from the environmentalists.

A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used,and the courts have accepted,spurious claims by so-called expert witnesses to win astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived us all of superior technologies and effective, life-saving therapies.