Anchor: Those seminal early papers were crisp and minimalist; they looked forward with remarkable prescience to the wild and woolly, out-of-control world of modern international macroeconomics.
Entailed: The early papers were short and to the point; they were forward looking and prescient to the wild world of modern macroeconomics.
Contradiction: The early papers were not short and to the point; they were backward looking and not prescient to the wild world of modern macroeconomics.
Contradiction: The bloated, crude early papers turned out to be devoid of any predictive power.
Contradiction: The papers were unorganized and complicated.
Contradiction: Nobody is walking
Contradiction: The four men have books all around them.