ABSTRACT
The recent boom of academic and popular interest in happiness is certainly not mere curiosity for a psychological phenomenon. Rather, this interest appears to spring from a disappointment with the effects of economic progress on our well-being. Apparently, economic growth has not been accompanied by human betterment. Human betterment (a term I take to be most general and which I am borrowing from Boulding 1972), however, is a complex and contentious notion. In a development ethical text, a more elaborate discussion of the idea of human betterment is obviously not out of place. In this chapter, therefore, I shall develop a concept of good development, clarify the distinction between principles and procedures of good development, and synthesize these ideas into an unfinished conception of good development, giving particular emphasis to the role of happiness therein.
