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Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
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Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval Hardcover - 2012

by Kenneth R. Feinberg


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Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: each was a disaster in its own right. What they had in common was their aftermath -- each required compensation for lives lost, bodies maimed, livelihoods wrecked, economies and ecosystems upended. In each instance, an objective third party had to step up and dole out allocated funds: in each instance, Presidents, Attorneys General, and other public officials have asked Kenneth R. Feinberg to get the job done. In Who Gets What?, Feinberg reveals the deep thought that must go into each decision, not to mention the most important question that arises after a tragedy: why compensate at all? The result is a remarkably accessible discussion of the practical and philosophical problems of using money as a way to address wrongs and reflect individual worth.

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  • Title Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
  • Author Kenneth R. Feinberg
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, Qj21
  • Date 2012-06-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781586489779 / 1586489771
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.9 x 1.2 in (21.84 x 14.99 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Damages - United States, Public policy (Law) - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012005785
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.730

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2012, Page 0
  • Poder Hispanic, 10/01/2012, Page 98
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/23/2012, Page 0

About the author

Kenneth R. Feinberg, one of the nation's leading lawyers, has been front and center in some of the most complex public legal disputes of the past three decades: Agent Orange, asbestos, the closing of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant, and now, 9/11. A former prosecutor and member of two Presidential Commissions, he is also adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and New York University. He lives in Washington D.C.
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