Runners delivering the food were just as clueless and used the auction method ("Who gets the fish?")

United States Treasury security auctions are conducted using the single-price auction method.

Q. Can economists say which of these auction methods is best?

It was considered illegal to allow a daughter to be sold outside of the auction method.

Questions were also raised about the auction method that the Government chose.

Those delivering the food did use the auction method: "Who gets the brisket platter?"

And the unusual auction method that Google has chosen poses additional risks.

"I've gotten to the point where I don't even try to explain the auction method without my laptop," he said.

You remember the auction method for initial public offerings, don't you?

In the auction method, there is no insider's advantage; anyone who wants to buy shares can go online and bid for them.