ABSTRACT
This chapter provides various emerging theories that either demonstrates how the world was linked or helped people understand what actions could be taken in such an interlinked world. It shows how the world's poor viewed within the context of a linked global world, it made sense with the older worldview: that the world was divided between "them and us", rich and poor or North and South or West and everyone else. New learning theories, used the growth of knowledge as a reason for building the theories, but the theories themselves emerge from a body of work in the field of educational psychology. Properties of knowledge gave resource characteristics unlike any resource contained in neoclassical economics. It had process properties that allowed it to spread within networks: social networks. Knowledge theory shows that a more equitable spread of knowledge benefits society, and shows how the theory of networks and knowledge economics views the importance of diversity.
