 Journals devoted to the topic of economics education include the "Journal of Economic Education", "International Review of Economics Education", "Australasian Journal of Economics Education", and "Computers in Higher Education Economics Review".Many organizations, such as The Economist, Financial Times, Royal Economic Society, and Institute of Economic Affairs, offer essay competitions for economics students.University-level economics curricula, particularly introductory courses, have been criticized for putting undue emphasis on neoclassical economics - with its key assumptions of individual rationality and market equilibrium, described in the next section - and failing to explain real-world economic phenomena such as the financial crisis of 2007–2008; 
see Mainstream economics #Criticisms and Financial economics #Challenges and criticism.