Article Title: Is Well-being a Number?

Article Summary

The author talks about the difficulty of measuring well-being. She says that the question of measuring well-being is based on some premises, the first being that well-being is an inclusive good that includes several goods. The second is that the composition of these goods depends on the history of the individual being considered. The rest of the article is a description of the methodology she prescribes for measuring well-being in her book, ‘A Philosophy for the Science of Well-being’. She theorizes that the science of well-being can be value-laden, objective, and empirical at once.