Who gets what [electronic resource] : fair compensation after tragedy and financial upheaval / Kenneth R. Feinberg.
Feinberg, Kenneth R.
2012
KF1250 .F45 2012eb
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Title Who gets what [electronic resource] : fair compensation after tragedy and financial upheaval / Kenneth R. Feinberg.
Author Feinberg, Kenneth R.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9781610390767 (electronic bk.)
1610390768 (electronic bk.)
9781586489779
1586489771
Imprint New York : PublicAffairs, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 216 p.)
Call Number KF1250 .F45 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 347.73/077
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher.
Note Includes index.
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1. The Professor, the Judge, the Lawyer and the Senator
2. Agent Orange
3. The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund
4. The Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund
5. Paying Wall Street Executives
6. Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
7. Epilogue "A Sense of Entitlement".

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