[单项选择] Banking is about money; and no other familiar commodity arouses such excesses of passion and disgust. Nor is there any other about which more nonsense is talked. The type of thing that comes to mind is not what is normally called economic, which is inexact rather than senseless, and only in the same way as all sciences are at the point where they try to predict people’’s behavior and its consequences. Indeed most social sciences and, for example, medicine could probably be described in the same way. However, it is common to hear assertions of the kind "if you were exiled to a desert island a few seed potatoes would be more useful to you than a million pounds" as though this proved something important about money except the undeniable fact that it would not be much use to anyone in a situation where very few of us are at all likely to find ourselves. Money in fact is a token, or symbolic object, exchangeable on demand by its holders for goods and services, its use for these purpo
A. different from sciences such as medicine
B. similar to other social sciences because it is imprecise
C. similar to other social sciences because a lot of nonsense is talked about it
D. different from social sciences which try to forecast the way people behave