As reported in Information Bulletin No.18, our Society attained its 50^th anniversary in 1998. To celebrate and commemorate our 50^th anniversary, we held a special academic conference on November 21-3, 1998 at the Department of Economics of the University of Tokyo, and its common theme was Twentieth Century Capitalism: A Review of History and its Methods. The following is a review of the Society's academic activities in the annual meetings from 1998 to 2001. Our Society has four divisions: Economic Theory and Current Analysis, Japanese Economic History, Agrarian Problems, and Foreign Economic History. The four divisions were usually supposed to take turns organizing academic conferences, which had been held semiannually on common themes. However, all of the four divisions made a united effort to organize the conference, which celebrated our 50^th anniversary in the autumn of 1998.
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