[jas3]

Your "source" is grossly out of date.

Warthog, I wonder if you consider the age of a work to be the defining characteristic of its value. Works like "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire" are far older that the book I suggested you read. Would you discount them solely because of their age?

jas3

[orionblamblam]

> Would you discount them solely because of their age?

There was this one book I heard about... claims to be made up of books and letters and epistles from apostles and such, written no later than about 1900 years ago. Clearly out of date.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Warthog, I wonder if you consider the age of a work to be the defining characteristic of its value. Works like "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire" are far older that the book I suggested you read. Would you discount them solely because of their age?"

When new validated research shows the older position to be erroneous, then yes. I'm sure that "The Wealth of Nations" doesn't tell the whole story of economics, nor "The Decline and Fall (NOT "Fall and Decline") of the Roman Empire" tell the whole story of the Roman Empire.