McKeever earned a BA, Economics, from Whittier College, California, in 1963 and an M. Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics in 1966. His focus was ’The Politics of International Economic Relations with Reference to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.’ He began lecturing on economics consistently in the early 1980’s. McKeever has been a Professor of Economics at City College of San Francisco since 2001.

In the early 1990’s he created a website, www.miepa.net, to present a list of 35 specific economic policies governments can enact to help their citizenry. Several economics students have completed detailed analyses of how well their home country governments adhere to or diverge from these policies. Some of those studies are available at the website covering more than 50 countries.