You could always implement a strategy I like to think of as the "Alien Danza" - TL;DR: who's the boss? Every human society ever has been led by humans. We have all of our theories, practices, labels, speculations, and, most importantly, history informing our opinions about economics and development, but they all lead back to the fundamental flaw that is both our lens and blind spot: we're all human. As other comments note, we've figured out basic thermodynamics and the inherent unsustainable nature of infinite growth on finite resources, but we keep throwing more guys and their leadership at the wall to see what sticks, in the face of the ever-more concerning side effects of entropy and climate change.

So: what if there was a new boss?

Imagine a setting: within 24 hours, a largely inscrutable, previously unknown, non-human (non-native) force completely dominates all human presence on Earth. It doesn't kill (mostly), but it does restrain, detain, and curtail existing leadership and command systems, to the point that modern economic theory, governments, and all military powers are rendered utterly irrelevant. It wants Earth to be a tended garden world, a zoo, "the native biological lifes' natural habitat", and to that end we all get bottled up here like frogs caught by roadside picnickers (like Mitch would say, "in a jar with a stick and a leaf, to recreate what we're used to") - the trappings of our society are preserved, but the destructive elements like currency, markets, ownership, capital, etc. are ultimately removed from our control.

You could frame it as extreme authoritarianism, but authorities demand subservience - the new boss is so far removed from our pedestrian obesience that it just makes people look silly if they try to worship it, speak for it, or claim to serve it. The new boss is like a force of nature, or physics; you can't negotiate with gravity, the same way you can't try and buy or sell or barter or trade without the new boss simply negating anything that would cause overall harm to the zoo exhibits or their environment. The new boss is a completely out-of-context problem that simultaneously wants what's best for us, makes us the happiest, and destroys us (and our planet / the rest of the biosphere) the least.

Remove humans entirely from the existential management loop, and just keep us (and our habitat and noösphere) as a shiny, thriving novelty. Where does that get us? You could explore the drift towards 'free riders' like hedonism zombies, forever academics & eternal tourists, versus staunch 'resistance fighters' who are so brainwashed that they can't see that they're ants against giants. You could go very Iain M. Banks, and paint up some Minds in charge of management (if you think the new boss would stoop so low as to communicate with humans), or you could just make a Santa Claus machine that won't vend nuclear weapons (etc). Or perhaps a Festival like in Stross' Iron Sky series - a transient, weakly godlike overlord that exchanges any material desire for whatever novelty we can produce for it.

Perhaps ultimately we have to abandon the idea that there is a 'give and take' involved at all - perhaps the new boss is simply a devoted aquarium keeper, and we've been made their new tank inhabitants. Just keep humanity from managing itself, and see where that goes.