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If Mr Blunkett really wanted to be radical, he could create zones where private firms take over the entire running of schools, or ones where parents get vouchers to spend either at state or private schools.
ECONOMIST: Schools
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Higher house prices simply re-distribute money from those on the way up the housing ladder, to those on the way down, or from younger people who don't own homes, or own small ones, to their parents who own family property.
BBC: Analysis
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Mr McFadden developed ways of modelling several types of choices, such as how many children to have. (He made time for three.) Multiple choices such as this one involve complex statistical analyses, since the factors influencing a couple to have their first child may not be the same as the ones that lead the parents of three children to have a fourth.
ECONOMIST: Economics focus