John Hassler of the prize committee said: " Financial crises and depressions are kind of the worst thing that can happen to the economy."

颁奖委员会的约翰·哈斯勒表示：“金融危机和萧条是可能发生在经济上的最糟糕的事情。”

Indeed, work by John Hassler, Per Krusell and Conny Olovsson of the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm suggests that costly energy affects the nature of innovation.

事实上，斯德哥尔摩国际经济研究所的约翰·哈斯勒、佩尔·克鲁塞尔和康尼·奥洛夫松的研究表明，昂贵的能源会影响创新的本质。