XIV th International Economic History Congress Helsinki, Finland, 21-25 August 2006 Session 95 Evolutionary Theories of Long-Run World Economic History: The Theory/History Interconnection Re-Examined _______________________________________________________________ Explaining the longevity of market-embedded clans: the case of Greek shipping 1 Stavros Ioannides Panteion University, Athens Email: stioan@panteion.gr And Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou Athens University of Economics and Business Email: iminoglou@aueb.gr This is a draft conference paper, not to be quoted without permission of the authors 1 We wish to thank Eleni Thanopoulou and Yanis Varoufakis for their comments.