Part I. The Formative Years: Introduction -- 1. An experimental study of competitive market behaviour -- 2. Effects of market organization on competitive equilibrium -- 3. Nature, the experimental laboratory, and the credibility of hypotheses with D.B. Rice -- 4. Experimental auction markets and the Walrasian hypothesis -- 5. Experimental studies of discrimination versus competition in sealed-bid auction markets -- 6. Experimental economics: induced value theory -- 7. Bidding and auctioning institutions: experimental results -- 8. Intertemporal competitive equilibrium: an empirical study of speculation with R.M. Miller and C.R. Plott -- 9. Experimental economics at Purdue -- Part II. Institutions And Market Performance: Introduction -- 10. On nonbinding price controls in a competitive market with A.W. Williams -- 11. An experimental comparison of alternative rules for competitive market exchange with A.W. Williams -- 12. Competitive market institutions: double auctions vs. sealed bid-offer auctions with A.W. Williams, W.K. Bratton and M.G. Vannoni -- 13. Markets as economisers of information: experimental examination of the 'Hayek Hypothesis' -- 14. The effect of rent asymmetries in experimental auction markets with A.W. Williams -- 15. Microeconomic systems as an experimental science -- 16. Experimental economics -- 17. A comparison of posted-offer and double-auction pricing institutions with J. Ketcham and A.W. Williams -- 18. Hypothetical valuations and preference reversals in the context of asset trading with M. Knez -- 19. Bubbles, crashes, and endogenous expectations in experimental spot asset markets with G.L. Suchanek and A.W. Williams -- Part III. Public Goods: Introduction -- 20. The principle of unanimity and voluntary consent in social choice -- 21. Incentive compatible experimental processes for the provision of public goods -- 22. An experimental comparison of three public good decision mechanisms -- 23. Experiments with a decentralised mechanism for public good decisions -- 24. Experimental tests of an allocation mechanism for private, public or externality goods with D.L. Coursey -- Part IV. Auctions And Institutional Design: Introduction -- 25. Incentives and behaviour in English, Dutch and Sealed-bid auctions with V.M. Coppinger and J.A. Titus -- 26. Theory and behaviour of single object auctions with J.C. Cox and B. Roberson -- 27. A test that discriminates between two models of the Dutch-first auction non-isomorphism with J.C. Cox and J.M. Walker -- 28. Theory and behaviour of multiple unit discriminative auctions J.C. Cox and J.M. Walker -- 29. Theory and individual behaviour of first-price auctions J.C. Cox and J.M. Walker -- 30. A combinatorial auction mechanism for airport time slot allocation with S.J. Rassenti and R.L. Bulfin -- 31. Designing 'smart' computer-assisted markets with K.A. McCabe and S.J. Rassenti -- Part V. Industrial Organization: Introduction -- 32. An empirical study of decentralised institutions of monopoly restraint -- 33. Natural monopoly and contested markets: some experimental results with D. Coursey and R.M. Isaac -- 34. In search of predatory pricing with R.M. Isaac -- Part VI. Perspectives On Economics: 35. Theory, experiment and economics -- 36. Experimental economics: behavioural lessons for microeconomic theory and policy.