# Who Gets What

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- Authors: [Kenneth Feinberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/kenneth-feinberg)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-06-26

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Who Gets What

- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-15-8648-977-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2012-06-26
- Language: en_GB