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Tayfun Sönmez is a Turkish-American professor of economics at Boston College. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the 2008 winner of the Social Choice and Welfare Prize which honors scholars under the age of 40 for excellent accomplishment in the area of social choice theory and welfare economics.Sönmez has made significant contributions in the areas of microeconomic theory mechanism/market design and game theory. His work has been featured by the U.S.