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Social and behavioral scientists have developed a consensual description of the “good life.” Their description of psychosocial prosperity might include additional elements, but there is widespread consensus that it comprises social support and safety, public trust and tolerance, positive evaluations of life, feelings of competence and mastery, and a predominance of positive over negative experience. This description of the elements of a flourishing life should be central to societal policies. Defining psychosocial prosperity, measuring it, and offering interventions to enhance it, are services that the social and behavioral sciences are uniquely qualified to provide. Creating national accounts of psychological and social prosperity will ensure that societies develop in positive directions. Although economic and other social indicators furnish needed information to policy makers, measures of psychosocial prosperity …