Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond

Guillermina Jasso

No 2641, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort, theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification – unification of different theories of the same field of phenomena and unification of theories of different fields of phenomena. Both types are usually a surprise; even when vigorously pursued, their form, when they finally appear, may differ radically from preconceptions. This paper examines a series of twenty-one unification surprises in the study of justice and beyond, sixteen in the study of justice and five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces – justice, status, and power – and the subsequent unification of the three sociobehavioral forces with identity and with happiness.

Keywords: fairness; comparison; status; power; identity; happiness; impartiality; inequality; inequality aversion; loss aversion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C02 D1 D31 D6 D8 I3 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 65 pages
Date: 2007-02
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Published - published in: Social Justice Research, 2007, 20(3), 336-371

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