In 2009, shortly after her retirement, celebrating her career as a historian, the book Economic Development and Social Change. Portugal in the Last Two Centuries: Tribute to Miriam Halpern Pereira was published. The work featured a wide range of participants from various universities and historiographical trends and was organised around some of the themes on which she worked and produced most: “Economy and economic policies”, “Urban growth and social change”, “Emigration and migratory movements”, “Political and institutional change”, “Concepts, archives, historiography”, which outline four of her chosen themes and highlight important lines of continuity. This category includes his studies on emigration, which he pursued throughout most of his career, his work on the Portuguese economy, particularly on economic development, which also always interested him, historiography, archives, and studies on the projects and social policies of liberalism, from which a deep interest in associativism and mutualism associated with the “social question” and the origins of the welfare state emerges. There was also the complex problem of citizenship, which was almost always present in her works on liberalism and the First Republic, which were oriented towards social history. Her studies in the field of 19th-century economic history were sometimes the subject of controversial criticism from some of her peers, to which she responded in subsequent works. This did not prevent her from being honoured later, in 2005, by the APHES Congress, with some of those same critics also contributing to the aforementioned book in her honour, published in 2009.

After her retirement and her elevation to Professor Emerita at ISCTE-IUL, she remained very active in academia, publishing several books and articles, some of which went beyond the 19th century, as her previous works had already indicated, such as A Primeira República. Na fronteira do liberalismo e da democracia (2016). She continued to participate in national and international meetings, favouring her well-established relations with Spain and Brazil.

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