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Category: MICE: Management Institute for Contributory Economy
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The Three MICE Papers Before the Mighty Storm hit South-East Queensland: Re-Authoring the Democratic Horizon; MICE and Tourism. The Guardians of Memory; Re-Mapping the City of Intellect
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The Evasion of Answerability: Deconstructing the Consensus Literature on Accountability and the MICE Contributory Corrective
Abstract This essay evaluates the growing divide between the academic consensus on governance accountability and the persistent evasion of answerability by contemporary political actors. While political players routinely treat accountability as a retrospective, upward-reporting administrative chore or a PR exercise in “retail governance,” modern scholarly consensus demonstrates that true accountability is multidimensional, downwardly oriented, and…
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Queensland Governance Reform
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract This essay investigates the imperatives for transforming public and administrative decision-making, with a primary analytical focus on the historical and contemporary governance of Queensland. It argues that traditional political decision-making in the state has long suffered from a “techné mindset,” characterized by anti-intellectual administrative styles, short-term political expediency, and…
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The Anatomy of Educational Positivism
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Beyond the Identity Mask: Gender, Epistemic Humility, and the Radical Primacy of the Human Condition
Dr Neville Buch and MICE[1] Abstract “There is little mention of gender in many of my ‘big picture’ publications. Gender is important but that importance is overplayed for ‘big picture’ conclusions. There are two issues here. One is the terribly stupid assumption that we (anyone) “knows” the cognition of the other gender. As a widower…
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Academic Charisma, Personalism, and the Structural Crisis of Higher Education
Abstract This essay presents a comparative analysis of William Clark’s historical-sociological monograph, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University (2006, pp. 3–30), and Dr. Neville Buch’s contemporary philosophical framework of Personalism and Spiral Historiography. Both scholars provide indispensable diagnostic lenses for understanding the structural and intellectual failures of contemporary Australian universities. Clark demonstrates…
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When Human Decision-Makers Surrender the Decision to the Machine — the Experience of another Human Writer (The Washington Post)
From Adeline Von Drehle, a writer in Brooklyn: The robots read my cover letters, The Washington Post, November 6, 2026 Recent graduates are experiencing the worst job market in years. A shortage of entry-level jobs, plus an explosion of artificial-intelligence-powered online recruiting, has spawned stories of young people who apply to 100, 500 or 800…
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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…
