Dr. J. Patrick Raines
Dean and Professor of Economics
Dr. J. Patrick Raines is both a Professor of Economics and the Dean of the College of Business Administration at Belmont University. He earned his B.A. in Economics, M.A. in Economics, and Ph.D. in Economics all from the University of Alabama, where he also played center on the football teams coached by Paul ”Bear” Bryant.
In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he has taught comparative economic systems, money and banking and international business classes in The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University.
In 1990, Dr. Raines was appointed as a Fulbright Scholar to the College of the Bahamas. His international experience also includes his leadership of one of the first industrial development groups to the former Soviet republics to establish educational and industrial relationships with emerging market enterprises. At the University of Richmond, he was instrumental in developing the curriculum and study abroad programs for the International Business program.
Dr. Raines has published more than twenty articles in prestigious academic journals in his field of economics. His research interests include economic models of institutions of higher education, debt and deflation in the U.S. economy, and behavioral finance. His latest book published by Elgar Publishing Ltd. in the summer of 2003 was entitled The Economic Institutions of Higher Education. His third book should be released in 2008. Since assuming the dean’s position at Belmont University, new undergraduate degree programs have been added in entrepreneurship, economics and international business. The MBA program was selected by the 2006 Nashville Business Journal Reader’s Poll as the BEST MBA program in Nashville. The Massey School has been listed in the Princeton Review in 2005-2008 and BusinessWeek ranked Belmont’s Undergraduate School of Business Administration as one of the Top 100 undergraduate business programs in the nation. Under his leadership funds were secured to establish two endowed chairs and to build and endow the first university-based financial information center (“Trading Room”) in the State of Tennessee.
Dr. Raines is a member of the Board of Directors for the Nashville Junior Achievement program, the Board of Directors for Centennial Medical Center, and the Advisory Board of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. His dedication to teaching resulted in his receipt of the University of Richmond Distinguished Educator Award. In 2001, he was nominated by the Council of Higher Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the Outstanding Faculty Award. He was also presented the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business Award for Scholarly Activities. He also received a Nashville Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Volunteer of the Year award for his economic impact study of the music industry in Middle Tennessee, released in January of 2006.
