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Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval

Who Gets What: Fair Compensation After Tragedy and Financial Upheaval

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Publisher's 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.

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Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9781586489779
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: PublicAffairs
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: 347.7377
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 216
Weight: 460g
Height: 148mm
Width: 225mm
Spine width: 24mm