This is a selection of some quotes of said author in the above novel. I found this to be useful for the development of my theory on the firm. Importantly in the novel some aspects are pointed out concerning the new relation between individual people and firms. Note that these are quotes from a novel: these can be useful in general and in this case (firm theory) in specific, because some novels have the capacity to shed light on new stuff.
'Free-market economics is an antiquated, smutty and careless box of tricks whose whimsical main flaw is clear even to a child. Still look how many adults fall breathless with lust to its promise – even though they must abandon empathy and moral judgment to embrace it. Their dirty secret puts all their intelligence to work throwing dust in the air around one glaring truth: that without trickery or eroding value, without extortion, manipulation, deceit or outright theft – profit will simply not perpetually grow' [DBC Pierre Lights Out in Wonderland fn p. 20].
'Remember this: there are no receptors left for cleverness in the public domain. You need never be more than slightly clever or slightly nice. Anything more will arouse suspicion and rage, and confound the software that runs the country. This is because society's mechanisms are calibrated for stupidity and indolence – and not to be that way is now, by definition, anti-social' [DBC Pierre Lights Out in Wonderland p. 29].
'Stupid nature, which the church led us to admire as a perfect system, has crippled us as it cripples and kills everything through shoddy design'[DBC Pierre Lights Out in Wonderland pp. 31-2].
'The head of a pharmaceutical company admitted that only thirty percent of drugs work properly on thirty percent of people. And if you observe life you'll see that he merely identifies the mean threshold of human success in nature. The drug company was a working model of the mathematics of expectation, endeavour, whim and fortune. Therefore abolish the notion of one-hundred-per-cent solutions to touted by culture. According to nature, thirty percent is a windfall'[DBC Pierre Lights Out in Wonderland pp. 43].
'And if it was profitable it must be true´ [DBC Pierre Lights Out in Wonderland p. 64].
'It has done this thinking that I am a food writer' [DBC Pierre Lights Out in Wonderland p 104].