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Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
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July 2012
On Sale: June 26, 2012
240 pages ISBN: 1586489771 EAN: 9781586489779 Kindle: B0080K3QJE Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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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