Bureaucratic organization imposes heavy conformity costs on both bureaucrats and the people they deal with in return for
a. control of committees in Congress.
b. a case-by-case treatment of issues with standards that vary from person to person.
c. reducing transaction costs and agency losses.
d. a lessening of red tape.
c. reducing transaction costs and agency losses.
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