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Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Technology massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf petrol spill: Each was a tragedy in its right. What that they had in keeping was their aftermath - each required settlement for lives lost, systems maimed, livelihoods wrecked, economies and ecosystems upended. In each case, an objective third party had to intensify and dole out allocated money: In each case, Presidents, Attorneys General, and other public officials have asked Kenneth R. Feinberg to get the job done. In Who Gets What?, Feinberg shows the deep thought that has to get into each decision, not to mention the most important question that arises following a tragedy: Why make up at all? The result is a remarkably accessible discussion of the useful and philosophical problems of using money in an effort to solve wrongs and mirror individual worth.
