In thermodynamics, a fourth law of thermodynamics is any of various newly forming statements regarding either energy, matter, temperature, time, or power principles in nature. Newly stated fourth laws often have reference to evolution, in such a way that they are said to reconcile the increasing entropy tendencies of the second law. In the history of thermodynamics, there have been dozens of various supposed "fourth laws". [1] In economic thermodynamics, an example of a faulty one is Romanian mathematical economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's 1977 statement that in a closed system, such as a human society, “material entropy must ultimately reach a maximum.” [2]

References
1. 15+ Variations of the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics - Institute of Human Thermodynamics
2. Corning, Peter A. (2005). Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution. (pg. 337). University of Chicago Press.