 
Reciprocity in Transactions
| Reciprocity | Libertarian | Reciprocist | Comparison Comment | 
| Voluntary | Required | Required | Agreed | 
| Fully Informed | Optional | Required | Impractical. Most transactions are not. | 
| Warrantied | Optional | Required | Impractical. Most transactions are not. | 
| Productive | Unnecessary (Judged by participants) | Required (Judged by government) | If voluntary, then both parties deem it productive. | 
| No imposed costs | Required | Required | But differ on what costs are relevant. | 
- Libertarianism allows more transactions among more people, but with a generally lower level of trust for some transactions.
- Libertarians are free to utilize measures of trust, but are not required to by legal systems, as they would be under nationalist reciprocism.
- One can predict that a libertarian society would have more trading among more traders than nationalist reciprocism, but have more disputed trades.
- All in all, one would predict that a libertarian society would have greater prosperity, due to its freer trade and resulting greater division of labor.
Also see this critique of Doolittle's Reciprocism.

