Economic policies that can foster growth are essential for the protection of savings. The value of financial assets derives from that of real assets: a company’s share and bond prices rise or fall according to its state of health.
Douglass North defined institutions as the “humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic and social interactions”.12  Economists from Adam Smith, to Ronald Coase, Mancur Olsen and, more recently, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, have explained how institutions are critical for the rule of law, property and civil rights, economic development, economic stability, and solving information and co-ordination problems across communities and societies.13 Surrounding us today are also pre-monetary exhibits of the museum’s collection which include treasures like Kuba cloths, a form of money from Congo in the 17th century.