Pedro Maia Gomes

Department of Economics

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Calle Madrid 126

28903 Getafe

Spain

Phone: +34 91 624 5732

Email: pgomes@eco.uc3m.es

Primary field: Macroeconomics

Research interests: Fiscal policy, optimal dynamic taxation, macroeconomics of labour markets.

"No wonder Lord Keynes insisted that the master economist fulfill a set of attributes more extraordinary than those needed for Knighthood or even Sainthood. He must be a mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher... He must contemplate  the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same plight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutiom must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician".

Todd G. Buchholz

                                     "New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought"