National Center For Policy Analysis - History

History

Its first offices were at the University of Dallas. The NCPA's founding and current president is libertarian economist John C. Goodman. Today the organisation has offices in Dallas and Washington, D.C.

Leadership of the NCPA includes:

• Pierre S. du Pont, IV, Chairman of the Board.
• Dr. John C. Goodman, President.
• Richard Walker, Senior Vice President.

Media attention has focused on the NCPA (for example, U.S. News & World Report, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Orange County Register) for recommending pension reform legislation including automatic enrollment into companies' 401(k) plans.

NCPA President John Goodman has written or co-authored numerous books, including Handbook on State Health Care Reform (ISBN 1-5680-8173-1) (2007), Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws (ISBN 0-7425-4545-8) with Wall Street Journal editorial writer Kim Strassel (2005), Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World with Gerald L. Musgrave and Devon M. Herrick with a forward by Dr. Milton Friedman (ISBN 0-7425-4151-7) (2004), Patient Power: The Free-Enterprise Alternative to Clinton's Health Plan with Gerald L. Musgrave (ISBN 1-8825-7710-8) (1993).

Goodman has also written "John Goodman's Health Care Policy Blog" since December 2005. Twice per week, Goodman also writes "Health Alerts".

The NCPA was a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, an organization created by the now-defunct non-profit group Consumer Alert that described itself as "an alliance of some two dozen non-profit public policy groups concerned about the implications of the Kyoto Protocol for consumers," and which was generally skeptical of the anthropogenic theory of global warming. NCPA has also attempted to debunk peak oil claims.

In 2005, the NCPA dismissed Bruce Bartlett, a Republican commentator, after he submitted a copy of the manuscript of his book, "The Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy".