Philip M. Parker

Philip M. Parker (born June 20, 1960) holds the INSEAD Chair Professorship of Management Science at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France). He has patented a method to automatically produce a set of similar books from a template which is filled with data from database and internet searches. He claims that his programs have written over 200,000 books. Parker publishes the automated books through Icon Group International, using several Icon group subheadings. Via EdgeMaven Media, he also provides applications for firms from different business domains to create their own computer-authored content material.

Born dyslexic, Parker early on developed a passion for dictionaries. He gained undergraduate degrees in mathematics, biology, and economics. He received a Ph.D. in business economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has master's degrees in finance and banking from Aix-Marseille University and managerial economics from Wharton.

He was a senior consultant at EMCI, and an economist for Nathan Associates in Washington, D.C., before moving to graduate business school and research institution INSEAD.

As well as co-authoring some technical economic articles, Parker has written six books on national economic development and economic divergence. These insist that consumer utility and consumption functions must be bounded by physical laws, against economic axioms which violate laws of physics such as conservation of energy.

Most of Parker's automatically generated books target niche markets (the "long tail" concept). Examples include:

All books are self-published paperbacks. Ninety-five percent of the ordered books are sent out electronically; the rest are print on demand. Parker plans to extend the programs to produce romance novels.

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