Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, calls efficiency rules "political pabulum" that allows politicians to sidestep the risk of letting energy prices float so that people feel the full brunt of their decisions.

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In a paper published last year, David Weinstein, an academic at Harvard University, reported that there are at least 20 such rules that benefit smaller companies.

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As the story goes, Rollins had skipped a number of classes while studying law at Harvard and had particularly sweated an upcoming exam on the federal rules of evidence.

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The right is generally happy to devolve decisions about education or health care to the states, notes Charles Fried, a professor of law at Harvard and former solicitor-general, but not product-liability rules and other forms of business regulation.

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