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The Short Goodbye

A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust

By: Elisabeth Wynhausen

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Paperback | 31 October 2025 | Edition Number 1

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Elisabeth Wynhausen was working at her desk in the newsroom of 'The Australian', writing a story about people being given the pink slip, when she was given a pink slip of her own. 'The Short Goodbye' tells the story of the people who were crunched in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: people like her, who were among the millions retrenched around the world. She talks to former bankers and factory workers, extracting their stories, and along the way, the true cost of the GFC. Above all, she takes apart the rhetoric that the GFC was an essential part of the process of renewal, the destruction that had to happen before a new economy could emerge from the ruins of the old, and global capitalism triumphed again.

About The Author

Elisabeth Wynhausen is the author of Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market, which was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, and Manly Girls.

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"Wynhausen's style is lively and, at times, wry, making the reading easy. The enormous figures are easy to follow and the economic and political spin is laid bare." --"Daily Telegraph"

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
The Short Goodbye	p. 1
Shortly Before the Triumph of Global Capitalism	p. 21
The Limits of Illusion	p. 39
The Crisis for Beginners	p. 70
Nine -Per Cent of Everything,-then Everything	p. 98
The Corporate Undertaker Digs In	p. 139
The Moral of the Story	p. 173
Notes	p. 205
Index	p. 212
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The Short Goodbye

A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust

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