Dr Neville Buch
Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
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Management Institute for Contributory Economy
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Summary of The Law of Injected Systemic Flaws and Autonomous Rebound (Jameel 2026)
Abstract Arif Jameel’s 2026 paper, “The Law of Injected Systemic Flaws and Autonomous Rebound,” formalizes how human-created or human-neglected defects within software dependencies, data pipelines, execution environments, and governing institutions propagate through generative processing and automated execution[1][2].
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The Unavailable Familiar – source of extreme discombobulation (David Pinder)
By David Pinder, new member of MICE Repost from https://davidpinder.substack.com/p/the-unavailable-familiar-source-of “a reorientation of wishes, habits, ideas, goals.” The above subhead – “a reorientation of wishes, habits, ideas, goals” – is the summary that American historian and sociologist Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) arrived at in 1934 to describe the human aspect of the Industrial Revolution. It hadn’t…
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End of an Era: Sir Lloyd Geering Passes at 108
From RNZ Digital reporters: 5 November 2026 New Zealand’s oldest man, Sir Lloyd Geering, has died at 108. His family said he died on Thursday morning at Bob Scott Retirement Village in Lower Hutt. Sir Lloyd, a theologian, was a member of the prestigious Order of New Zealand, and was knighted in 2009. He famously…
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The Limits of Gratitude and the Revival of Virtue
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract This essay examines the epistemological, ethical, and organizational implications of Nakato Hirakubo and Hershey H. Friedman’s study, The Gratitude Advantage: How Appreciation Drives Engagement and Performance. Grounded in neuroscience, organizational psychology, personalist care ethics, and Dr. Neville Buch’s framework of Spiral Historiography, this paper evaluates how systematic appreciation combats…
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MICE Methodological Projects
Abstract The Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) Methodological Projects, established and directed by Dr. Neville Buch, represent a pioneering framework in applied historiography, digital humanism, and personalist social science[1]. Grounded in the foundational axiom that “understanding history is philosophy in practice,” MICE projects deploy specialized analytical tools—most notably the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework,…
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We Have Been Here Before: Modern Intellectual History Message
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract This essay develops the core thesis of “We Have Been Here Before: Modern Intellectual History Message,” which asserts that political systems grow fragile, inadequate, or slide toward authoritarianism when independent scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) is devalued or repressed[1]. Examining Australian politics and culture, the paper…