Is it due to the homogenisation of the political class, the fact that Miliband, Clegg and Cameron are all from broadly similar backgrounds?
San Francisco is one of those wonderful cities boasting whole streets resistant to chains and homogenisation.
Falling mobility isn't simply caused by labour-market homogenisation, the authors argue, but also by greater efficiency.
The level of concentration in many vital industries has fallen dramatically since 1950 and remained roughly constant since 1980 60 years agoo two car companies accounted for half of the world's car production, compared with six companies today.He also refutes the idea that globalisation means homogenisation.
With the main geographic barriers oceans, mountains, large rivers and deserts no longer effective, they argue, we risk the homogenisation of the planet's flora and fauna; a real disbenefit, because countries place a strong aesthetic value on their special plants and animals.One can be cynical about cost-benefit sums; often they remarkably reflect the views of the analyst.
But some of the guests find the atmosphere more than a tad sepulchral, and hanker for the hotel's crumbling past.Hardier, more nostalgic and poorer visitors resent the homogenisation brought by modernity, which flattens those quirks that make up if not "charm" (too strong a word for the old Strand), then at least "character".
But that complaint has found no echo among residents, who are far more afraid of suburban homogenisation than multicoloured sculptures.
There is, too, a shallowness in the homogenisation of African cultures and something ultimately wearing in the allegorical use of animals.
And yet, never has the world been under such threat from the forces of homogenisation".
The world needs friendly competition around which to gather; at the same time football's diversity of styles is a welcome demonstration that globalisation need not mean homogenisation.
There will continue to be "unprecedented opportunities for homogenisation and globalisation", but there are also "possibilities for great localisation"—including services such as Foursquare.
