Hendrik Van den Berg is an associate professor of economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he teaches economic growth and development as well as international economics. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1971 and 1973, respectively, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 and 1989. Between studying in New York and Wisconsin, Hendrik served as foreign service officer at the U.S. Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, in the position of commercial officer and as market research and promotion officer at the U.S. Trade Center in Sao Paolo, Brazil. In 1979, he left the State Department to enter the private sector. After a brief stint managing the Sao Paolo office of Marsteller Advertising, he became planning manager for Singer of Brazil, also in Sao Paolo. In 1985, Hendrik decided to return to his first love, economics, and enrolled in the PH.D. program at the University of Wisconsin.

Hendrik Van den Berg has published many articles on exchange rates, international trade, alternative estimates of economic growth and productivity growth, and, most recently, the empirical relationship between international trade and economic growth. He has also written the distance learning course in international economics for the University of Nebraska's Distance Education Division. He has already written another text for McGraw-Hill/Irwin, Economic Growth and Development, copyright 2001.