CORRECT answer is option 2.The passage is about the price-fixing and how, in one FORM or another, it is an inevitable part of and benefit to the economy of any industrialized society. The following is STATED in the passage: "...price-fixing is NORMAL in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that it requires." Clearly, only option 2 is correct.