Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval - Couverture rigide

Feinberg, Kenneth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1586489771 ISBN 13 : 9781586489779

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2012

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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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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1586489771
• ISBN 13: 9781586489779
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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