Dr. Mark Frederick Figueroa

Research Interests

• Caribbean Economic Thought: Establishing a Firmer Foundation for the Field of Study
• Economic thought in the English-speaking Caribbean Academic and Pre-Academic
• The Political Economy of Jamaica's Inner City Electoral Contests
• Defining and Measuring Remittance Flows to Caribbean Countries: The Case of Jamaica
• Challenging Gender Privileging Issues of Leaderships and Body Image

Citations

Book, Chapter

• Figueroa, Mark. The community as a resource for solid waste management.
• Figueroa, Mark, Sives, Amanda. Garrison politics and criminality in Jamaica: Does the 1997 election represent a turning point?
• Figueroa, Mark. Thought and freedom: Thirty-five years after
• Figueroa, Mark. Neo-liberalism and mercantilist: Ironic parallels
• Figueroa, Mark. Peasants, plantations and people: Continuities in the analysis of George Beckford and W.Arthur Lewis
• Figueroa, Mark. Neoliberalism and mercantilism: ironic parallels
• Figueroa, Mark. The co-management and valuation of coral reefs in the Caribbean: A Jamaican NGO perspective
• Figueroa, Mark. Underachieving Caribbean boys: Marginalization or gender privileging
• Figueroa, Mark. Peasants, plantations and a place for people: Continuities in the analysis of George Beckford and W. Arthur Lewis
• Figueroa, Mark. Male privileging and male 'academic underperformance' in Jamaica
• Figueroa, Mark. The community as a resource for solid waste management
• Figueroa, Mark, Harriott, Anthony, Satchell, Nicola. The political economy of Jamaica's inner-city violence: A special case
• Figueroa, Mark. Old (female) glass ceiling and new (male) looking glasses: Challenging gender privileging in the Caribbean
• Figueroa, Mark. . Migration and remittances: Typologies and motivations.

Journal, Article

• Figueroa, Mark. Common themes in the post world war two economic thought of the English-speaking Caribbean
• Figueroa, Mark. W. Arthur Lewis vs the Lewis model: Agricultural or industrial development ?
• Figueroa, Mark. Does the market undermine its social (resource) base?
• Figueroa, Mark. The plantation school and Lewis: Contradictions, continuities and continued Caribbean relevance
• Hall, Winnifred Madge, Figueroa, Mark. Jamaican children with special needs: Concerns, realities and possibilities
• Figueroa, Mark. . The academic economist as teacher: Lessons from Lewis and the Caribbean policy discourse
• Figueroa, Mark. . Rethinking Caribbean agriculture: Re-evaluating Lewis’s misunderstood perspective.
• Figueroa, Mark. Making sense of male experience: The case of academic underachievement in the English-speaking Caribbean
• Figueroa, Mark. Thinking about gender at UWI
• Figueroa, Mark, Sives, Amanda. Homogenous voting, electoral manipulation and the 'garrison' process in post-independence Jamaica
• Figueroa, Mark.. George Cumper and the critical tradition: Common themes in post World War II Caribbean thought.

Conference Proceedings

• Figueroa, Mark. W. Arthur Lewis's social analysis and the transformation of tropical economies
• Figueroa, Mark, Mortley, Natasha. Is the hegemony of male political leadership at risk in the English-speaking Caribbean?
• Figueroa, Mark. Rethinking Caribbean Agriculture: Re-evaluating Lewis’s Misunderstood Perspective
• Figueroa, Mark, Mortley, Natasha . Women and leadership in Jamaican government, politics and state administration.
• Figueroa, Mark.. Challenging gender privileging: A Caribbean experience
• Figueroa, Mark, Alleyne, Dillon, Kirton, Claremont. Financial flows from the Caribbean Diaspora: Evidence from the Jamaican survey of living conditions
• Figueroa, Mark F.. Gender privileging and socio-economic outcomes: The case of health and education in Jamaica.
• Figueroa, Mark, Kirton, Claremont, Alleyne, Dillon. Defining and measuring flows of remittances to the Caribbean: The Jamaican case
• Figueroa, Mark, McLeod, G., Kirton, Claremont. The importance of the Diaspora to small island developing states
• Figueroa, Mark. Economic perspectives of the English-speaking Caribbean (in Spanish)
• Figueroa, Mark. Thirty five years after Best's 'Thought and Freedom': Looking forward to Caribbean development
• Figueroa, Mark. Economic thought as a constraint on the contribution of economists to Caribbean society
• Figueroa, Mark. Gender privileging and socio-economic outcomes: The case of health and education in Jamaica
• Figueroa, Mark F.. Development of Economics as an Academic Discipline in the English speaking Caribbean.
• Figueroa, Mark F.. Towards a Caribbean Policy on Urban Forests: The Case of Kingston, Jamaica.
• Figueroa, Mark F., Espeut, Peter. Preparing for participatory environmental planning in the English speaking Caribbean: The case of the SCCF in Jamaica.
• Figueroa, Mark F.. Social Capital in the Defence of Natural Capital: The Case of Solid Waste Management.
• Figueroa, Mark F.. Economic incentives and non-biodegradable waste in the English-speaking Caribbean.
• Figueroa, Mark. Lewis, New World and the Marxists in a neo-liberal world: Reflections on the critical tradition in Caribbean economic thought.
• Figueroa, Mark. Jamaica's political garrisons as a context for gang activity
• Figueroa, Mark F.. Female schooling achievement in Jamaica: A market and non-market analysis.
• Figueroa, Mark F.. Does the Market Undermine its Social (Resource) Base?
• Figueroa, Mark F., Kirton, Claremont D.. Costing the eurocentric aesthetic: The case of hair styling in Jamaica
• Figueroa, Mark F.. Jamaica’s cultural capital: An assessment.
• Figueroa, Mark.. Insights from the 1938 (All Jamaica) Economic and Industrial Conference.
• Figueroa, Mark.. A city confronts its problems: The 1938 economic and industrial conference called by Kingston’s Mayor Anderson.
• Figueroa, Mark, Sives, Amanda . The growing impact of Jamaican garrison politics: Does the 1997 election signal a break in the trend?
• Figueroa, Mark.. Gender differentials in educational achievement in Jamaica and other Caribbean territories.
• Figueroa, Mark. . Gender, household structure and leadership in Jamaica: Can we believe the survey of living conditions?
• Figueroa, Mark. The origin and spread of the garrison phenomenon in Jamaica.
• Figueroa, Mark. Valuing water quality.
• Figueroa, Mark. From critical pluralism to marginal mainstream: Economics in social and economic studies - the first fifty years