Salo Vinocur Coslovsky

Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service

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105 East 17th street
Room 343
New York, NY 10003
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Salo Coslovsky's research analyzes how governments in developing countries build legal authority and use it to influence routine business practices. He is particularly interested in the enforcement of labor, environmental, food safety, and similar regulations that protect vulnerable groups from exploitation and abuse. This is a topic of much contemporary concern as it addresses the twin challenge of how markets can be more vibrant and more humane. This topic is also forward looking, as it examines how governments can promote economic development even when they are restricted by international treaties, relatively free trade, and the need to attract transnational capital flows.

 

Professor Coslovsky conducts most of his research in Brazil, and has studied numerous industries, including the production of pig-iron, sugar and ethanol, brazil-nuts, farmed shrimps, cattle ranching, and more. In addition to his academic work, Coslovsky has advised Brazilian and multilateral organizations, including the Ministry of Environment, the Environmental Protection Agency, the International Labor Organization, and the Inter-American Development Bank on matters of policy design and implementation. 

 

He received an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

His personal website can be found at http://salocoslovsky.wordpress.com/  It contains the working paper version of all his papers.