
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF CREDIT
The Making and Unmaking of the Financial ConstitutionBy Dr. Bichara SahelyLength3h 55m
About this audiobook
Who governs the future? In The Sovereignty of Credit, Dr. Bichara Sahely reveals the hidden financial constitution beneath formal politics: the laws, institutions, markets and infrastructures that decide which futures become fundable, enforceable and real. Tracing the evolution of credit from merchant finance and public debt to central banking, financialization, digital money and artificial intelligence, the book identifies a Great Financial Inversion in which financial claims are protected more reliably than the human, productive and ecological capacities that sustain them. Using the Caribbean and small-island condition as a powerful diagnostic lens, Sahely develops a constructive alternative: credit as delegated public power, governed by democratic accountability, plural banking, debt justice, life-stability and digital public money as a civil commons. This listener edition presents the central argument in a clear, spoken format designed for sustained reflection.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Politics and Government
Length3 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Note to the Listener
98. Reconstituting the Sovereignty of Credit
21. Who Governs the Future?
10Conclusion — Who Shall Inherit the Future?
32. Credit as Power over Future Possibility
11Listener’s Closing Reflection
43. The Historical Construction of Credit Sovereignty
12Listener’s Guide to Key Terms
54. Credit and the Twentieth-Century World Order
13Note on Sources and the Scholarly Edition
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65. How Finance Governs the Present
14Acknowledgements
76. The Life-Ground Beneath the Balance Sheet
15Research and AI Transparency Note
87. The Caribbean and Small-Island Condition
16About the Author