ABSTRACT
Given the global and macro-economic context described above, it is important to understand the origins of structural inequalities, both historically and in the contemporary era of globalization and regional economic growth. This chapter will examine structural inequalities from three different analytic perspectives: scale and time, trajectories of accumuIation, 1 and institutional power. Each of these concepts will be defined to demonstrate that structural inequalities are themselves the results of multiple historical factors and patterns of cumulative causation. Together these three perspectives help to explain the role and impacts of infrastructure in contributing to the origins and incidence of structural inequalities.
