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Given the time frame you are interested in, I suspect your starting 
point should be: 
 
J.W. Duncan and W.C. Shelton. Revolution in United States Government 
Statistics, 1926–1976, Washington, DC: US Department of Commerce, 1978. 
 
Though your interest in the CPI is different, you would probably find 
useful: 
 
M. Perlman ‘Political purpose and the national accounts’, in The Character 
of Economic Thought, Economic Characters and Economic Institutions: Selected 
Essays of Mark Perlman, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 
1996. 
 
This will give you some further references on national accounting. 
 
Roger Backhouse 
 
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