Samuel Bostaph wrote:
>I used to read the AER pretty regularly in the 70s and early 80s.  That's when I saw all the assertions of seminality, although the word used wasn't always "seminal."  And, "seminal" need not mean "highly original" or to connote an intention to be hugely influential.  Other words that imply that the author is initiating a new direction, but not taking it too far were also used.  That's what I meant--and I did get tired of the protestation of modesty, when it was well earned.
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>  Sam Bostaph
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I am sure that Sam Bostaph's judgment that new directions in mainstream 
(AER) economics after the mid-1980s were not worth his attention will 
give us HET-ers much to ponder.

E. Roy Weintraub