Jackson (economics, U. of Wollongong, Australia), analyzes the impact of technological change and learning on the rate of profit in theory and in several case studies: the manufacturing industry in the US; the switch from steam to diesel locomotives in the railroad industry; automation in the pulp plant of a paper mill; the refining of petroleum to produce gasoline of a higher octane rating; and the building of Liberty ships in individual shipyards during World War II. Finally, the time constant progress function is introduced to show how learning increases profitability. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The learning curve for most brand new aspiring investors and traders can be long and very expensive if they begin the wrong way. $hortening the Day Trader Learning Curve is aimed at giving the beginning information you will need to cut down that long learning curve and get you going down the road to consistent profitability in the financial markets faster. Brand new investors, swing traders and also position traders and investors have a tendency to come into the financial market trading business with unrealistic expectations of how much money they can make from trading. $hortening the Day Trader Learning Curve will help new aspiring investors and traders understand what is needed right from the very start of your financial market trading and investing business from day one. Make no mistake the market is not some game, it is competition at the highest level and your opponents are the best traders in the world and they are looking to drain your capital account on a daily basis, are you going to let them do that? By the time you have completed reading this entire book you will know what is needed of you to make it in this business. Then it is up to you to take what you have read in $hortening the Day Trader Learning Curve and capitalize on it in your education and in the live market so you can begin to make money right away. $hortening the Day Trader Learning Curve gives you clear concise information that you can use right away to begin making money if you follow what is said here. You can make a fortune in the live financial market if you start off the right way from the first day with the right information. No one wants to learn a bunch of unrealistic information that won’t make them money in the live markets right? No one is making you get into the trading business so I encourage you to read and absorb the information given here in $hortening the Day Trader Learning Curve then perhaps do more data mining on your own if you want to make money quicker than your competition. Brand new traders are their own worst enemy in the market when they first start out and that is because they have done all of the wrong things to start off. $hortening the Day Trader Learning Curve gives you examples of what and what not to do to expedite your learning curve and I strongly encourage you to follow what it says in here if you are a beginner with zero experience if you want to be consistently profitable in today's financial markets right away.

Written by international contributors, Learning Curves: Theory, Models, and Applications first draws a learning map that shows where learning is involved within organizations, then examines how it can be sustained, perfected, and accelerated. The book reviews empirical findings in the literature in terms of different sources for learning and partia

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