Robert Lewis Stevenson’s story, Imp in the Bottle, features a fabulous bottle whose owner will be granted any wish by the imp who lives within the bottle. The problem is that anyone who buys the bottle must sell it at a lower price or else suffer eternity in hell. [If you do not believe in hell, assume that you do for the purposes of this question.] Assuming the smallest possible unit of currency is one cent, would you buy the bottle if it were offered to you for $1,000? Explain your reasoning.
