Who Gets What : Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval

Kenneth Feinberg

ISBN 10: 1586489771 / ISBN 13: 9781586489779

Published by Publicaffairs,U.S. Jun 2012, 2012

About this Item

Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who Gets What : Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
• Publisher: Publicaffairs,U.S. Jun 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586489771
• ISBN 13: 9781586489779
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 148H x 24D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 460 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Kenneth R. Feinberg, one of the nation's leading lawyers, has been front and centre in some of the most complex legal disputes of the past three decades: Agent Orange, asbestos, the closing of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant, and 9/11. He is adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the University of Virginia.