Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: anat shenker-osorio

  • Me, elsewhere: Just say you’ll do the thing

    Wrote something over at 1/200 on a familiar theme of mine: The way we frame the economy as a separate, sacred force which must be sacrificed to, the way we…


  • 2017 rewind: Why fiscal responsibility is the Bog of Eternal Stench

    The fourth-most-read post on Boots Theory last year questioned a pretty strongly-rooted tenet of modern Labour Party faith. People have said to me since the election result, “see, it worked!”…


  • Why fiscal responsibility is the Bog of Eternal Stench

    Labour and the Greens have announced a cornerstone coalition policy for the 2017 general election: a set of Budget Responsibility Rules which will, per the Greens’ website: … show that…


  • Lefty book reviews: Don’t Buy It

    Where to start with Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Don’t Buy It: The Trouble With Talking Nonsense About The Economy? This review seems redundant, because literally every person I’ve encountered in the past…


  • Metiria Turei’s state of the nation

    It’s state of the nation season, which as far as I can tell is a really recent development in NZ politics. It certainly doesn’t have a patch on the utterly…