"The Whole Pie..."

So, Tyler Cowen likes The Office:

I have recently become a big fan of the BBC TV show The Office, now available on DVD. This hilarious show, about the foibles of the British workplace, is an object lesson in industrial organization, the difficulty of pinning down the right incentives, and how corporate management sometimes resembles central planning?

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Yes you will find the anti-capitalist mentality in this show, but I doubt if few will walk away with a fervent belief in government planning as the proper response.

I never found the Office anti-capitalistic. People, in real-life and in fiction, complain about stuff. They think they don't get paid enough; they think the system is trying to oppress them; they think things are not run quite correctly - but these moans are not coherent enough to be classified as anti-capitalistic. Especially the Brits, who are famous for their apathy and political mildness. The Office, brilliantly captures that sentiment.

The Filter^ are big fans of the Office, see Anthony's previous posts here and here. And if Cowen likes The Office, may I also recommend to the Professor the delight of Alan Partridge, starting from I'm Alan Partridge, working back to Knowing Me, Knowing You, another fine British comedy series.