The Consumer Price Index: A Research Agenda and Three Proposals
主张在更一般的假设下发展生活成本指数理论，以应对当前对CPI的担忧，并探讨了三个被忽视但关键的问题：谁的CPI、为何购物以及什么是商品，最后讨论了CPI编制技术问题与税收转移指数化政治问题的交叉。
This paper argues that dealing with current concerns about the CPI within the framework of economic theory requires developing the theory of the cost-of-living index under more general assumptions than have thus far been standard. It examines three neglected but critical issues that should rank high on the research agenda because of their practical implications for index number construction: Whose cost-of-living index? Why shop? and What is a good? It concludes by discussing the intersection between the technical problems of constructing the CPI and the political problems of indexing taxes and transfers.