Welcome to A Book with Legs podcast, hosted by Smead Capital Management. In each episode, the folks at Smead Capital Management explore value investing through an entirely unique lens, bringing in authors to discuss books that have directly or indirectly influenced the decisions the Smead team has made on their investments in stocks and equities. The podcast is for the curious-minded looking for worldly wisdom. Investing is the last great liberal art, and the team at Smead wants to learn as much as they can. Any level of investor, business person, or thinker, whether personally or professionally, will be intrigued and engaged by these discussions.

&lt;blockquote&gt;In this episode, Professor Anne Murphy joins Cole Smead to discuss her latest work, &quot;Virtuous Bankers,” which explores the foundations of banking in 18th&amp;nbsp;century England. Murphy tells the story of how early bankers leveraged moral integrity and trust, which were essential to the development and stability of the financial system at the time. The book argues that the success of the Bank of England and the banking&amp;nbsp;industry at large relied heavily on a strong reputation for virtue.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

A Book with Legs

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