CAT 2020 Odd one out — Previous Year 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.