TY - RPRT AU - Jasso, Guillermina TI - Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond PY - 2007/Feb/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 2641 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2641 AB - 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. KW - fairness KW - comparison KW - status KW - power KW - identity KW - happiness KW - impartiality KW - inequality KW - inequality aversion KW - loss aversion ER -