The Historical Oil Rent in the Mexican Economy 1938-2001

This study has reviewed and expanded the main calculations and analysis of the paper written by Dr. Mar Rubio which studied the adjustment of the traditional GDP of Mexico, published in 1998 by the Economic History Deparment of LSE. This paper improved the work of Dr. Mar Rubio in two directions:(1）Provided a different result about this question. 2）Gived a more clear and more reasonable process to analyze and calculate these economic problem. The rent issue of a resource sector has been an important question in developing countries. The scale of natural resource rent decides the distribution structure of one country