Question

Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the number of the sentence as your answer:

• A. You can observe the truth of this in every e-business model ever constructed: monopolise and protect data.
• B. Economists and technologists believe that a new kind of capitalism is being created - different from industrial capitalism as was merchant capitalism.
• C. In 1962, Kenneth Arrow, the guru of mainstream economics, said that in a free market economy the purpose of inventing things is to create intellectual property rights.
• D. There is, alongside the world of monopolised information and surveillance, a different dynamic growing up: information as a social good, incapable of being owned or exploited or priced.
• E. Yet information is abundant. Information goods are freely replicable. Once a thing is made, it can be copied and pasted infinitely.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

We observe that Statement (3) initiates the discussion by addressing the topic of intellectual property rights. Following this, Statement (2) progresses along a similar vein, discussing the notion of 'monopolizing and protecting data', which can be linked to the aforementioned intellectual property rights. Consequently, the conversation centers around the role of data and information within the market system. Statement (5) acknowledges the prevalence of monopolization while emphasizing the abundance of information. This leads us to Statement (4), which presents information from a different perspective, portraying it as a social good. Although the sequence appears somewhat disjointed, statements 3, 1, 5, and 4 collectively explore the same theme. However, Statement (2), focusing on "Merchant Capitalism", deviates from this theme. Hence, it stands out as the odd one out.

So, the correct answer is (B): Economists and technologists believe that a new kind of capitalism is being created - different from industrial capitalism as was merchant capitalism.