Play Ethic review in Management Today

From Management Today, no less, a positive and (for me) educational review of the Play Ethic book, by the comic-improviser-meets-management-consultant Neil Mullarkey. A sample:

This is not an anti-capitalist tract: far from it. The play ethic is right at home in the 'networked world of informational capitalism'. Look at all those '60s hippies now atop the entrepreneurial ladder. How can we talk of a work ethic when so much is available for free on the net - whether it be Linux software, music or writing?

I used to get frustrated with my economics tutor, who always made us assume 'perfect competition' to make the graphs work. Human beings are not rational economic actors: the reasons for this are more interesting than indifference curves. Human systems are complex; their overall behaviour cannot be predicted, but a spirit of play can cope with this uncertainty.

Emergence and extinction live side by side with competition and co-operation, altruism and selfishness. But it doesn't have to be a zero-sum game. In improvisation, if you look good, I look good.

Happy to see these points made - I'm interested in all forms of human interplay and reciprocation, markets included (though my political position on market reciprocation is probably closest to that of Geoffrey Miller).