> The TV show "Yes, Minister" […] Was basically written as ideological propaganda, per the show creator: > The fallacy that public choice economics took on wa

> The TV show "Yes, Minister" […] Was basically written as ideological propaganda, per the show creator: > The fallacy that public choice economics took on was the fallacy that government is working entirely for the benefit of the citizen; and this was reflected by showing that in any [episode] in the programme, in Yes Minister, we showed that almost everything that the government has to decide is a conflict between two lots of private interest – that of the politicians and that of the civil servants trying to advance their own careers and improve their own lives. And that's why public choice economics, which explains why all this was going on, was at the root of almost every episode of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.[17] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister#Politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister#Politics