The Social Sciences University of Ankara, the publisher of the Journal of Islamic Economics (JIE), has a unique perspective on economics and Islamic economics. Our perspective starts with rebuilding economics and Islamic economics around more realistic assumptions, underlined by an economic system that is not ideal nor perpetually in stable equilibrium. In addition, decision-making in the market economy can be an investment- and productivity-based rather than debt-based. Finance must be, therefore, tightly connected with production, investment, and consumption, while the finance and commodity sectors are closely interconnected. The JIE has been launched to take part in developing a genuine perspective based on three pillars. The first is to follow an analytical approach to Islamic economics. The second is to insist upon realism while keeping analysis manageable. This particularly excludes the assumptions used under neoclassical and post-Keynesian analyses. The third is the belief that economics as a discipline needs to be reconstructed in order to accommodate other economic approaches.