Book excerpt: Capitalism, Communism & Cowism – The world is in search of an economic system that works for the people and the Planet. And this search has been going on for the last one hundred years without much success. The industrial revolution started with capitalism but the communist revolution overthrew it in many places. Socialism was proposed as a viable alternative but it collapsed before too long. Capitalism in its various forms and shapes is still running but every now and then it runs into serious difficulties.