This course, which was taught during February 2016 at the ESEADE University Institute, aimed to introduce the students to a series of essential notions to understand the evolution of rules and institutions and thus, the social, political and institutional reality. The 10 notions we analyzed were: Scarcity, Incentives, Rationality (limited), Knowledge (dispersed), Expectations, Unintended Consequences, Emerging Order, Evolution, Adaptation, Mutation. Some of the authors studied were Alexander, Elster, Cosmides & Tooby, Dawkins, Hayek, Hume, Richerson and Boyd, Ridley, Simon, Weber. Hume, Richerson y Boyd, Ridley, Simon, Weber.