Dr Neville Buch
Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
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M.I.C.E.
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 Road to Geelong: A Re-Narrativization of The Story of Resilience Part 1
Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract This essay produces a scholarly re-narrativization of Dr. Neville Buch’s autoethnographic account, The Story of Resilience Part 1: The Story of Resilience in Traveling the Australian East Coast. The narrative chronicles a high-stakes, 2026 research voyage undertaken for the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) from Brisbane through regional New South…
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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…
