Douglas Watt has combined in The Price of Scotland his twin loves of Scottish history and finance. He was educated at Edinburgh University where he gained his PhD in Scottish History, and has written a number of articles based on the results of his post-doctoral research. He worked for nine years as an investment manager and is currently working for First State Investments in Edinburgh. Douglas Watt lives in Linlithgow with his wife Julie and their three children.

Douglas Watt has brought an economist's eye and poet's sensibility in The Price of Scotland... to show definitively... that over-ambition and mismanagement, rather than English mendacity, doomed Scotland's imperial ambitions. THE OBSERVERThe Price of Scotland treats Darien as a financial mania. THE FINANCIAL TIMESExceptionally well written, it reads like a novel. As I say - if you're not Scottish and live here - read it. If you're Scottish read it anyway. It's a very, very good book. i-on MagazineThe must-have book on the events in advance of the Act of Union that brought Scotland and England together in 1707 is Douglas Watt’s The Price of Scotland. It’s a fantastic run-through of the “catastrophic failure” of the Darien Scheme – the creation of the Company of Scotland to establish a Central American colony. THE FINANCIAL TIMES

Douglas Watt has combined in The Price of Scotland his twin loves of Scottish history and finance. He was educated at Edinburgh University where he gained his PhD in Scottish History, and has written a number of articles based on the results of his post-doctoral research. He worked for nine years as an investment manager and is currently working for First State Investments in Edinburgh. Douglas Watt lives in Linlithgow with his wife Julie and their three children.

Douglas Watt has brought an economist's eye and poet's sensibility in The Price of Scotland... to show definitively... that over-ambition and mismanagement, rather than English mendacity, doomed Scotland's imperial ambitions. THE OBSERVERThe Price of Scotland treats Darien as a financial mania. THE FINANCIAL TIMESExceptionally well written, it reads like a novel. As I say - if you're not Scottish and live here - read it. If you're Scottish read it anyway. It's a very, very good book. i-on MagazineThe must-have book on the events in advance of the Act of Union that brought Scotland and England together in 1707 is Douglas Watt’s The Price of Scotland. It’s a fantastic run-through of the “catastrophic failure” of the Darien Scheme – the creation of the Company of Scotland to establish a Central American colony. THE FINANCIAL TIMES