Dr Neville Buch
Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
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Management Institute for Contributory Economy
Radical enough to shift the agenda, liberal enough to allow everyone a decent place in the social environment, and conservative enough to preserve the legacy of good value for Contributory Economy
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The Human Being Above the Transaction and Why Markets Cannot Measure Human Worth
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] The “Why Markets Cannot Measure Human Worth” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay mounts a systematic defence of the priority of human beings, cultural life, and the knowledge commons against the marketized orthodoxies advanced in Bevin Luchel’s Fixed Mindsets, Fixed Incomes (2026a) and Real-World…
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Beyond Neoliberal Formalism: Should Taxpayers Fund Independent Philosophy
The “Should Taxpayers Fund Independent Philosophy” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: The “Who Is the Real Academic Rent Seeker” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay presents a critical interrogation of Bevin Luchel’s monograph, Fixed Mindsets, Fixed Incomes: What Beyond the Binary Is Really Asking For…
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A Critical Phenomenology and Epistemology of Open and Fixed Mindsets: Quantum Biology of the Open Mind
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] The “Quantum Biology of the Open Mind” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship at: Abstract The widespread popularization of Carol Dweck’s dichotomy between “growth” (open) and “fixed” mindsets has profoundly shaped contemporary educational psychology, management pedagogy, and self-help literature (Awan n.d., p. 1; Dweck 2015 cited in…
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The Spiral Historiography in the Techné Mindset
I hope that persons have not “pop” out of the online room, never to return; but I understand such reasons as ill health and the priority of other projects. That is my “innovating” thinking. The reason to hound you this morning is Tom Fishburne’s explanation of the term “disruptive innovation” and the theory for this…
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The Personalist Approach to Argument: Dialectic, Relationality, and the Spiral of Human Authorship
The “Using Personalism to Fight AI Denoetization” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay examines the philosophical foundations, communicative architecture, and societal implications of Personalism, focusing specifically on the Personalist approach to argument. Emerging historically as a revolt against both mechanistic naturalism and totalizing absolute idealism, Personalism asserts that reality…
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From Augustine’s Pears to Academic Boycotts: Fundamental Sociological Change in Australian Cultural Relations
The “From Augustine’s Pears to Academic Boycotts” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay presents a critical, historical-sociological reconstruction of Fundamental Sociological Change in Australian Cultural Relations, expanding upon Dr Neville Buch’s foundational thesis of “Substantial Fairness in Semantics and Strategies for the Level Playing Field” (Buch 2026: 1–17). The…