RETHINKING MONEY: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity

Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity

Award-winning author, Jacqui Dunne, co-author of RETHINKING MONEY: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity (Berrett Koehler; February 4, 2013; $27.95), is coming to St. Paul to give the single, most important economic discussion of our time: as the United States staggers through “the Great Recession,” and the economies of Europe suffer near collapse, we must discard our view of the world through the outdated monetary prism that assumes we need to do everything with a single scarce currency.

TimeBanking is a form of new currency and there are seven TimeBanks in the state of Minnesota including: Hour Dollars (St. Paul), Northeast Time Bank (Minneapolis), Northeast Time Bank (Minneapolis).Roseville MN Time Bank (Roseville), Time Trader (Rochester), Lake Superior SHARE (Duluth), and Neighborhood Resource Exchange (Golden Valley).

She will be speaking and signing her book on Wednesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. at the Dayton Avenue Presbyterian Church, 217 Mackubin St., St. Paul, MN. The event is hosted by SubText: A Book Store and is open to the public. For information, contact the bookstore at 651 493 3871.

RETHINKING MONEY: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity  is an excellent book on the alternatives of employing currency that teaches ingenious ways to maximize economic activity through services, barter, neighborhood currency models and a whole host of unique arrangements which have proven successful in implementation.

The book transcends the idea of barter alone by covering new and innovative systems of exchange which originate at the local level. The presentation is easy to read and very relevant in today's global economy. The ideas in this book are only a limited cure for unemployment and underemployment. The exchange systems discussed will take pressure off local communities by gainfully employing people in needed services in exchange for service credits for goods and services truly needed

Jacqui Dunne is an award-winning journalist from Ireland, founder and CEO of Danu Resource, and an emerging leader in helping entrepreneurs develop technologies and initiatives that restore the earth's equilibrium globally. The company serves as a fiscal agent for funding, and works as the interface between the donors and the projects. Danu’s unique value is its ability to work from a future reference point that draws out the greatness, and builds upon the strengths, of both the donor and the recipient, thus creating a flourishing paradigm shift for a quadruple bottom-line –people, planet, profits and power within.