A major difference between the economic systems of the United States and the former Soviet Union was that in the Soviet Union:
self-interest was eliminated. economic coordination relied heavily on the market mechanism. a system of central planning determined what goods would be produced. self-interest, though never completely eliminated, was gradually being replaced with pure social consciousness.
Economic coordination in the former Soviet Union was most heavily based on:
property rights and the invisible hand of the market. the replacement of self-interest with altruism. direction and regulation by the government. tradition, custom, and habit.