<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishMaandishi hayo ya mapema yalikuwa ya kipekee na ya hali ya chini; walitazama mbele kwa utabiri wa ajabu kwa ulimwengu wa kisasa wa uchumi wa jumla wa kimataifa.  <response>: 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. 