Bienvenidos Sr Greenspan

ARTICLE - Ever so briefly yesterday, the capital of the world financial system moved to Mexico City. Alan Greenspan, Andrew Crockett, Wim Duisenberg and a bevy of other central bankers were all in town for a seminar on macroeconomic stability organised by Guillermo Ortiz, Mexico's central bank chief.

First published in the Financial Times, US edition, 13 November.

But the event did not go by without the occasional hitch. Greenspan's speech, on how Adam Smith's views on the wealth of nations have

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