These points rang home during the opening keynote by John Gerzema, author of the book Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell and Live.

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Muhammad Shariatmadari, a member of the Society for the Defence of the Values of the Islamic Revolution, is put forward as commerce minister.

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He also said he'd sweep away what he calls the values of the 1968 student revolution that he says have degraded France.

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