Web author David K. Faubion, lives on the planet Earth, 3^rd from the Sun,™ and is an illegal alien from Oregon

This site expands upon the ideas that define and methods that create other systems of economic well-being; the web author presents it by way of an interpretation of existing ideas and actual models. My main source of research comes through the book Understanding the Global Economy by Howard Richards, which I helped to edit and publish in the 2nd edition.

In addition, I include information from the author's numerous teach-in presentations about the new economic paradigm; this is based upon both his research and proactive experience in South America over that past several decades. Nevertheless, Dr. Richards' research focuses upon economic theory, philosophy, and social scientific theory; therefore, this site seeks a more complete definition the primary concepts and methodology. This site brings tangible examples to the ideas and method by way of Internet and contacts with other work, research, and the experience of other economic models,

Love is old, love is new *

The so-called new [economic] paradigm is likely the oldest model; and the developed world sees it as new and novel; thus, an old economic paradigm, for example the caritas, (ancient Greek) which means care for all others as the first concern instead of profit based model does, in effect, look new and perhaps out-of-place and even dangerous to the ruling order of the world, today. However, other economic models do thrive within the glaring fact of one prevailing economy. Within the dominant economic worldview, micro market models include:

New Economic Paradigm within the Internet

A prime expression of the new, though in fact oldest, economic paradigm exists within the Internet. It has been active from the start and through the brief, condensed history of the Internet. Thus, the worldwide web has brought to humans another innovation, which is a re-innovation, beyond the digital and other technologies, to the forefront of modern culture. Much less well-known, respected, and understood though vastly simpler and more easily integrated into the human psyche, freeware, which is also known as open source code has been a vital part of the Internet from the inception of the web in the 1980s.

A current expression of freeware and open source known as careware rings true to the paradigm of caring, which the ancient Greeks placed above all other economic models. Please visit this site. Learn about the early Internet as told to us by a computer programmer who is part of the legacy, which lives on in his work and that of a growing and determined groups of others.

The first economy of the Internet was a non-economy—spawned by and for the use of the small group of activist academics—who first inhabited the web. Thus, use value to fulfil needs—as opposed to exchange value to bring profit—served as the social code. For the inspired pioneers of the new universe of tool use, this unwritten code sent them soaring out of the box that is market economics. Within the Internet today, this spirit still thrives, though dwarfed by frenetic commerce of consumerism.

Nevertheless, for a few golden years, technical genius raised its ethical consciousness to the level of their mastery of the technology they had brought to the world. The old Internet of gift economy,which, in fact, a non-economy, still lives on to once again sit back upon the seat of virtue and, thus, to dethrone exchange value, profit, overproduction, and the treatment of people as nothing but a market and resource for the expansion and exploitation by the few who own production.

"Love is old, love is new."—John Lennon