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The economic and scholastic models, had outlined a critique of some economic knowledge, identified with the academic and business establishment, without stating what kind of practice should set itself up as an alternative. The aim of this paper is a preliminary outline and outlines the points of departure for the construction of economic knowledge linked to the concrete and practical activity engaged in processing social agents. We begin our discussion by noting that the “removal” of economic discipline and practice of social production of knowledge explains the “social status and power” with which it has the “prestige” in other words, they get economists to move away from the vocabulary and lore. Transformed, through the operation of removal, in a purely technocratic discipline, access to which depends on the acquisition of a particular discourse and quite limited. Holders of such “economic knowledge” while “elite group”, are legitimized by widening the gap between representation and popular feelings and his own discursive practice, thus creating a vicious circle of feedback between legitimacy and isolation. On the other hand, from a point of view “epistemological” is rather paradoxical to note that these same economic technocrats, while isolating the discursive field, making it “dark” to the layman, constantly appealing to “common sense” , understood as a series of theoretical-political base and a priori, that predict a certain “naturalness” of the social.