Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval

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Author: Kenneth R. Feinberg
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Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval by Feinberg, Kenneth R.

Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval

€40,29

Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval

€40,29
Author: Kenneth R. Feinberg
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Kenneth R. Feinberg
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 06/26/2012
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781586489779


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2012
Poder Hispanic 10/01/2012 pg. 98

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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